Additionally, this discovery, published in the journal Current Biology, makes it clear that ancient whales originally called South America — not North America — their first home in the Western ...

It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost its legs, and all of its vital systems became adapted to a ...

This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the “Valley of the Whales.” Now, paleontologists have unearthed a whole new species of ancient whale dating to 43 million years ago ...

The specimen, likely to be of the ancestors of modern whales, would have helped geologists assess the paleontological ...

Therefore the aquatic cetaceans (toothed and baleen whales) that began to appear 50 million years ago in the Eocene must have evolved from terrestrial animals. What remains unclear is which group of ...

However, based on the actual body length of the megalodon revealed this time, as well as analysis based on a hydrodynamic model of how large creatures such as whale sharks, basking sharks ...

It was only at the beginning of 2022 that the first assessments of the skeletal remains of Peru's so-called 'sea monster', an ancient whale considered one of the largest predators that existed 36 ...