In 1919, whalers pulled up a 27-ton humpback whale and saw something that should not have been there: two unmistakable legs.

New research from the University of St. Andrews shows how sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while ...

Wadi Al-Hitan in Egypt’s Western Desert preserves one of the most important fossil records in the world for understanding how ...

A sperm whale group in the Mediterranean (including one albino individual). (Asociación Tursiops) In the sparkling blue ...

The whales occasionally switched back to an older call pattern, suggesting they retained knowledge of both dialects.

Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. 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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - 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 an ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — 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 an ...

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 ...

About 25 million years ago, the warm, shallow seas off the southern coast of Australia were home to a bountiful scene of ocean-dwelling creatures. “In these seas, there was this extraordinary ...