Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

Wadi Al-Hitan in Egypt’s western desert is described as a major fossil site containing whale skeletons dating to roughly 37 million years ago, from a period when the region was covered by a tropical ...

A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

A 21-million-year-old fossil has been safely removed from the beach at Ocean Grove, east of Geelong, in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in Victorian ...

Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new study, described in a paper published Feb. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, provides ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

A 20-million-year-old whale fossil has been excavated from a Victorian beach after it was discovered by a family late last year. The one-tonne fossil was found at Ocean Grove Beach on Bellarine ...

An army of Museums Victoria and Barwon Coast Council staff successfully dug the fossil up from the beach at Ocean Grove, on the Bellarine Peninsula, yesterday ...