Nick Pyenson, a top expert on whale evolution, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of The Roy Chapman Andrews Society ...
Wadi El-Hitan in Egypt’s Western Desert preserves one of the world’s most important fossil records of whale evolution. Hundreds of skeletons from ancient whales such as Basilosaurus and Dorudon, along ...
Alfred the aetiocetid had teeth but needed a better way to capture his tiny prey. Credit: Carl Buell Baleen whales, such as the gigantic 30m-long blue whale, are the largest animals that have ever ...
A dolphin breaking the surface for air can seem like a reminder of its mammalian past. But evolution is not nostalgia. The ...
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) really do use their massive heads to deliberately push and strike objects. A team of ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on ...
The origins of whale midwifery might date back millions of years, the researchers say. Childbirth can be a beautiful but ...
Scientific analysis of "cannibal" killer whales might seem shocking at first glance, but it might also indicate that our ...