Old Fossil Teeth of Early Mammals Shocks Archaeologists, 'A Jaw-Dropping Moment' Human ancestors had an adventurous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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That would mean the largest megalodons may have been nearly the size of a blue whale. “Our new value represents ... for megalodon based on the present fossil record and data,” says Shimada.