Imagine standing on a muddy riverbank 50 million years ago and seeing a strange creature lumbering by—part crocodile, part ...

A newly discovered fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to a study published December 11, 2019 in the open-access journal ...

“When we talk about whale evolution, ... The loss of teeth, then, appears to have set the evolutionary stage for the baleen, which the scientists estimate arose about 5 to 7 million years later.

Scientists CT scanned fetal whale specimens from the museum's marine mammal collection to trace the development of fetal ear bones in 56 specimens from 10 different whale families. Their findings ...

How whales accomplished such an enormous transformation has baffled even the greatest scientific intellects. Recognizing the conundrum as one of the great challenges to his theory of evolution by ...

At one stage, whale hearing was crude in both air and water. The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, the journal Nature ...

Fossil Whale Shows Transition Stage to Tail-Powered Swimming. Researchers from the University of Michigan have described a new fossilized whale that represents not only a new species, but also ...

“When we talk about whale evolution, text books tend to focus on the early stages, when whales went from land to sea,” says Nicholas Pyenson, the National Museum of Natural History’s curator ...

Researchers have identified a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that may represent the missing link between toothed and baleen whales, according to a study published today (November 29) in Current ...

A blue whale specimen, dating from 1936, from the Gulf of Mexico is part of a rare Smithsonian collection of whale fetuses. Maya Yamato, Smithsonian Institution For evolutionary biologists, whale ...

At one stage, whale hearing was crude in both air and water The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, the journal Nature ...