But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares new ... "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old ...

The new findings underscore the vital importance of the Australian and wider Southern Hemisphere fossil record for piecing together the global picture of whale evolution. The previous ruling ...

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

The fossil was found in the Western Desert ... and has expanded human knowledge on the evolution of whales and how the species went from herbivore land mammals into the carnivorous giants of ...

scientists have had to rely on inferences from fossils and studies of fetal-whale development in the womb to piece together clues about how baleen evolved. "When we talk about whale evolution ...

Photograph by Bella Falk Fossil ... evidence that whales did once live on land and gave up their terrestrial lifestyles to return to the ocean. “It’s like being able to see evolution with ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and the little-known chimaeras (also known as ratfish, rabbit fish or ghost sharks). While ...

Imagine a huge site full of fossils from another time. That’s Wadi al-Hitan, also known as Whale Valley. Located in the deserts of western Egypt, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is known for its ...

South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and ...