It also had crests and other features distinctive of whales. The anatomy, location, and time period all indicated that this ...

(An alternative theory, advanced by paleontologist Hans Thewissen, is that whales descended from an animal similar to Indohyus, a prehistoric deerlike artiodactyl the size of a raccoon that was ...

Yet their size hindered their mobility, something that prehistoric whales could have taken advantage of. Baleen whales of that time period were significantly smaller than their descendants ...

Jamie Gustafson draws dinosaurs, sharks and pretty much anything else from the natural world. Some of his clients have ...

To see if barnacles had the same properties long ago, Taylor hunted down fossils that lived on early humpback whales, and bingo: They did. He hopes to shed light on prehistoric whales’ movements ...

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we thought.

The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body ... The study highlights how large aquatic animals including sharks, whales, or even extinct marine reptiles, follow similar ...