A 30 million year-old fossil whale may not be the heaviest ... 39 million years ago and belonged to an extinct group of early whales called the basilosaurids. Perucetus' bones are unusually ...

The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...

Fossils of early animals of the Avalon assemblage c.565 million years old at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, Canada. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

A road-widening project has unearthed four new baleen whales species in Southern California’s Laguna Canyon. The fossil specimens, at 17 to 19 million years old, are the most recently evolved toothed ...

A 9-million-year-old delphinid fossil found in Shin-Totsukawa, Hokkaido, was previously considered the oldest one known. This marks the third time a new fossilized whale or dolphin species has ...