Whales, the ocean's largest creatures ... Pakicetus' descendants continued to adapt, leading to the evolution of Ambulocetus, which lived between 50 and 48 million years ago.

Imagine looking at a majestic blue whale gliding effortlessly through the ocean, the largest animal on Earth. Now, picture ...

Picture a peaceful farm at sunrise: cows grazing lazily, horses trotting in the distance, and the air thick with the sounds ...

Germany, 49 million years B.C. A day in the life of a small forest mammal called Leptictidium who is trying to raise young, a giant predatory bird called Gastornis trying to hatch an egg and a ...

As their descendants continued to adapt to life in water, the cetacean lineage led to species like Ambulocetus, which lived between 50 and 48 million years ago. Today, whales are divided into two ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of death for the small minke whale that was trapped for several days in a Long Beach harbor earlier this month, according to media reports. Officials from the ...

The gray whale has the longest recorded migration, not just of a whale, but of any animal in the world. Gray whales have been recorded as traveling an incredible 14,000 miles from the Sea of ...

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed ...

A rare juvenile minke whale that had repeatedly been seen stranded in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized Tuesday after officials determined the mammal had little chance for survival. The ...

(AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived. They are found in warm ...