A recent study, published in Papers in Palaeontology, discusses the reanalysis of the only known Idiorophus patagonicus ...

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 ...

Thanks in large part to Philip Gingerich, the fossil record of whales now offers one of the most stunning demonstrations of Darwinian evolution rather than a refutation of it. Ironically ...

Analyzing the anatomy of early fossil cetaceans in the context of modern mammals to understand the evolution of cetaceans from terrestrial ancestors. The evolution of modern cetaceans (including ...

Because the scant fossil evidence failed to suggest terrestrial ancestry, whale evolution became a pet subject of creationists. The past two decades have changed all that, and whale evolution now is ...

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 ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a small baleen whale, estimated ...

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 ...