Scientists have discovered evidence of a 42 million-year-old whale species on the coast of Peru. While this find would be ...

Did you know whales evolve from a land based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To look into the evidence we need to look at the desert, which I know sounds a bit strange when talking about Whales.

Palaeontologists have been uncovering prehistoric whales here for over a century. Around 1,000 individuals have been identified, making this the biggest whale graveyard on Earth, and one of the ...

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago ...

Rule and his colleagues analyzed a part of the lower jaw of a prehistoric whale that was part of the Museums Victoria collection, found in 1921 on the banks of the Murray River, South Australia.

‘Fossil whale finds, like the specimen from the Murray River, are shaking up the evolution of whales into a more accurate, truly global picture of what was going on in the oceans long ago.’ The paper ...

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines.

What is this whale skeleton doing in the Egyptian Sahara Desert? This part of the Sahara Desert is the resting place of some of the earliest whales ever found. These fossils may hold the key to ...

Scientists identified a new species of whale from 41 million years ago. It's estimated to have been around 8 feet long and weighed about 412 pounds.

A basilosaurus whale fall and giant, prehistoric sharks Once the bones where cleaned up and examined, something interesting came to light.