In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third time in a decade to glimpse the life still clinging to a whale’s ...

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If you own a legendary kerosene lamp, your lamp takes its place in an evolution of lighting technology that led to today’s LEDs. I find the sooty old kerosene lamp to be more romantic than LED lamps.

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use ...

After a nearly 130-year scientific slumber, the study, titled "Awakening Patagonia's sleeping sperm whale: A new description of the Early Miocene Idiorophus patagonicus (Odontoceti, Physeteroidea ...

Others, such as sperm whales, have neither cone and, thus, fully monochromatic vision. Scientists know they are only just beginning to plumb the genetic depths of cetacean evolution.

Baleen whales are the titans of the ocean, the largest animals to have ever lived. The record holder is the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), which can reach lengths of up to 30 metres.

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.

The whale ‘dark ages’ Baleen whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. Using plates made out of keratin to filter fish and invertebrates out of the water, the marine mammals have been able to ...

The new findings from the Museums Victoria Research Institute reveal that this evolutionary leap in size happened as early as 20 million years ago – and in the Southern Hemisphere. Dr James Rule and ...