Whale Evolution: Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. ... wolf-sized carnivores that lived between 60 and 37 million years ago, in the early Eocene epoch.

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

In the heart of Egypt's Sahara Desert, an extraordinary site known as Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, has unveiled fossils ...

And yet, that hasn’t always been the case. Pyenson’s own work measuring more than 140 fossil specimens of whales, some of which date as far back as 30 million years, showed that for most of ...

Peredo and Pyenson see studying whale evolution as key to understanding their survival in today's rapidly changing oceans. Like the emergence of baleen, ...

Gray, blue, big, bigger: baleen whales put the mega in “megafauna.”In a new study published on April 4 in the journal Science Advances, researchers discuss the whole-genome sequencing of ...

The answer may lie in whales. Ellis and his team at the University of Exeter recently published a study in the journal Nature that studies the evolution of menopause in the undersea animals most ...

“Maiabalaena shows that the second phase of whale evolution is just as important for evolution over big scales. For the first time, we can now pin down the origin of filter-feeding, which is one of ...