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

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark ... these animals can “learn their way out of this” or whether “they’re bound by their evolution to sort of fall into ...

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

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

It was too big for a seal and too small and oddly shaped for a whale, NOAA Fisheries noted. Duquette sought the expertise of ...

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

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.

Scientists have explored how changes in sea surface temperatures during the Cretaceous influenced the diversification and ...

Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some ... organisms must match their environments, often through ...

A team of paleontologists recently discovered that an ancient seascape known for its diverse assemblage of exceptionally ...

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