Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach ...

The earliest mysticetes, including Mystacodon, Llanocetus, and Janjucetus, retained teeth as well as mixed indicators that they fed via suction or raptorial (biting) ingestion or by some combination ...

Modern cetaceans – whales and dolphins – have one of the largest size ranges of any living animal group, ranging from as small as 1.5 metres long to as much as 30. However, a new study reveals this ...

Whales started becoming big early in their evolution – and kept going for millions of years. Analysis of hundreds of living and extinct species reveals that the diversity of body size across whales ...

Whales are the latest iteration from a long lineage of large ocean-bound mammals. Find out some extinct types of whales.

The fossil represents a previously unknown species, named Janjucetus hunderi after its teenage finder Staumn Hunter, who noticed it in an exposed boulder while surfing in 1997. Janjucetus hunderi ...

Before We Surfed It: Bird Rock, 1858 The ancient bluffs, from Jan Juc to Bells, when they were just a little younger.

Geelong region fossil hunter Yestin Griffiths attracts cult following A local fossil hunter has become a social media sensation for his fascinating discoveries around the Geelong region. Here’s ...