Why it's incredible: The valley holds hundreds of primitive whale skeletons, some of which have "feet." Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the ...

Two newly described fossil whales--a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to ...

Whales are amazing creatures that have been swimming through the oceans for millions of years. What many people don’t realize, however, is that long before that, the ancestors of whales walked on land ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Some recently discovered fossils are helping College of Charleston research associate and adjunct instructor Robert Boessenecker answer questions surrounding the evolution of ...

Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago. By Franz Lidz In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was ...

From Moby Dick to Shamu, whales have long fascinated humans. Their remarkable status as ocean-dwelling mammals, along with dolphins and porpoises, at once makes them related to us and yet ...

“It was a large marine predator, estimated to have been almost 40 feet long. It was discovered by the Natural History Museum's field paleontologist, Mario Urbina, in the Ocucaje area of Ica. This ...

Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale skeletons, some of which have feet and toes preserved. These skeletons and other marine fossils date to the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the ...