South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and travellers can visit them to see one of the great mysteries of evolution ...

Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki is one of the oldest known toothed whales with advanced auditory capabilities. The anatomical ...

Here, at the end of a long, unsealed road is Wadi al-Hitan, a 75sq-mile UNESCO World Heritage Site said to hold the key to one of the greatest mysteries of evolution. You wouldn’t think so ...

Here, at the end of a long, unsealed road is Wadi al-Hitan, a 75sq-mile UNESCO World Heritage Site said to hold the key to one of the greatest mysteries of evolution ... meticulous work of ...

Paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins.

The researchers compared thalattosuchians, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs, with the predecessors of cetaceans such ...

A team of scientists has found that the sinuses of the prehistoric ancestors of crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales ...

The images indicated that, similar to dolphins and whales, thallatosuchians evolved smaller braincase sinuses as they ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

An international team of paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean-dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles ...