When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

The blue whale diverged from other Balaenopteridae (including fin and northern minke whales) between 5 and 10 million years ago, and the oldest fossil representing something similar to today’s ...

Caption Size comparison of a modern blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) and the extinct Perucetus colossus, known from a fossil discovered in Peru. Researchers initially estimated the mass of ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

But the tooth almost certainly came from a very large ichthyosaur comparable in size to the blue whale, Sander said, pointing to jaw fossils from the United Kingdom that came from animals estimated at ...

But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares new, whale-like features with the whales we know today, and in the fossil record, we can observe the gradual accumulation of these aquatic ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33-50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.

Blue Whales Are Mostly 'Left-Handed' Watch Mysterious Blue Whale Behavior Likely Filmed for First Time Mysterious Blue Whale Behavior Likely Filmed for First Time Mysterious Blue Whale Behavior ...