In this illustration provided by Ruairidh Duncan a Janjucetus dullardi is depicted chasing a fish. Ruairidh Duncan / AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

We explore the origin of the Mystacodon, what we know today as baleen whales. Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen ...

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some ...

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 ...

In a remarkable breakthrough, an international team of scientists led by Egyptian researchers has unearthed a long-lost chapter in the story of marine evolution. The discovery of a new species of ...

The oceans are thought to be where life started but about 50-million years ago, something incredible happened: some mammals found their way back into the water.