Roughly 19 million years old, this fossil is the tip of the lower jaws (or "chin") of a baleen whale estimated to be around nine meters in length, which makes it the new record holder from its time.

Whales were the first mammals to evolve baleen ... It is rarely found in the fossil record, leaving paleontologists without direct evidence of its past or origins. Instead, scientists have ...

July 24, 2024 — Researchers have been tracking a 26-foot endangered whale shark -- named 'Rio Lady' -- with a satellite transmitter for more than four years -- a record for whale sharks and one ...

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed ... The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites ...

66 x 52 in. (167.6 x 132.1 cm.) Etching and aquatint with carborundum and relief on White Wove Handmade TGL paper. Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco. Artwork is in excellent condition.

Long before whales, ichthyosaurs were the first such ... Ichthyosaurs first appeared in the fossil record two hundred and fifty million years ago and disappeared about ninety million years ago.

The fossil whale bones have both extensive in-filling and extra growth of bone on the outside as well, a condition called pachyostosis also seen in some modern aquatic mammals, such as manatees ...

in 1971. Payne, who had helped discover and record humpback whale song a few years prior, was struck by the fact that many toothed cetaceans, such as killer whales and dolphins, are highly social ...

A team of Australian researchers has described a new species of now-extinct sawfly from an extremely well-preserved fossil found in ... And our new research shows whale sharks—the world's ...

When it struck the shore and deflated, I knew: it was a dead whale. But it wasn't just any whale. It was Fran. "I knew this whale, and I'm like, Ohhhhh. It just hit my heart, because Fran ...

In an encounter off B.C.'s Swiftsure Bank, a biologist recounts how the emaciated southern resident killer whale calf ...