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

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Scientists discovered a fossil-rich whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, offering new clues about ancient marine life and whale evolution.

Hidden deep beneath the Indian Ocean, researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest and largest whale graveyard, ...

Not every scientific discovery begins with a dramatic excavation. Sometimes the most important part comes later, after the fieldwork is over and the fossil has spent years waiting for someone to look ...

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 ...

The ocean floor is covered with dead whales–but it is everything but a biohazard. When a whale dies, its body sinks to the ocean floor in a process called whale fall. The carcass then becomes its own ...

Beaked whales are famously private—even their mass grave was hiding.

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 ...

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 ...

Long before the ocean’s largest filter-feeders roamed the seas, their smaller, sharper cousins ruled the warm shallows. One such predator, newly named Janjucetus dullardi, offers a striking glimpse ...