Nick Pyenson, a top expert on whale evolution, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of The Roy Chapman Andrews Society ...

Two new studies from Project CETI provide the most detailed account of a sperm whale birth ever recorded, revealing ...

A dolphin breaking the surface for air can seem like a reminder of its mammalian past. But evolution is not nostalgia. The ...

Wadi El-Hitan in Egypt’s Western Desert preserves one of the world’s most important fossil records of whale evolution. Hundreds of skeletons from ancient whales such as Basilosaurus and Dorudon, along ...

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 ...

Scientific analysis of "cannibal" killer whales might seem shocking at first glance, but it might also indicate that our ...

Researchers have documented the first known example of non-kin helping with the birth and postnatal care of a marine mammal.

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 ...

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 ...