Groundbreaking new research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales. Palaeontologists ...
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 ...
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 ...