Here, we’ll explore the inside of the duck’s mouth and learn more about their bills and what they use them for. Then, we’ll check out their gizzard and find out just why ducks eat rocks. We’ll go over ...

Imagine a world where enormous beasts clash beneath the waves, locked in a struggle for survival. Picture a creature as long ...

This same ecological niche would later be occupied by various groups, including certain extinct marine reptiles, massive sharks like the prehistoric Rhincodon, and eventually, the baleen whales of ...

There are fourteen species of baleen whale – including blue, bowhead, right, fin, humpback, minke, and gray whales. Baleen whales are whales that have “baleen plates” instead of teeth.

It’s a whale of a discovery. 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 ...

Research using computed tomography (CT) to image a 25-million-year-old fossil whale skull has shown that Aetiocetus weltoni -- a distant relation to today's Mysticeti baleen whales -- had teeth and ...

They found that baleen whales evolved to produce sound with the vibrations of specific internal structures in the larynx, that toothed whales do not have.

But examining an enormous fossil, researchers found that the baleen whales measured about nine meters in the southern hemisphere 19 million years ago. Most mammals have teeth, but baleen whales ...

But examining an enormous fossil, researchers found that the baleen whales measured about nine meters in the southern hemisphere 19 million years ago. Most mammals have teeth in their mouth, but ...

Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago.

An artist’s rendering of Nihohae matakoi, a dolphin with tusklike teeth that lived during the late Oligocene period in present-day New Zealand. Daniel Verhelst ...