Modern members of the mammalian order Cetacea (whales ... the most primitive representative for which a skeleton was known was clearly amphibious and lived in coastal environments.

Nearly all of Italy was once under water, and it is not unusual to find cetacean fossils in Tuscany. But the whale skeleton's discovery, about six miles east of the Mediterranean, was ...

you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale bones are still leaking oil, despite the cetacean being dead for over ...

Per a National Geographic report, University of Pisa paleontologist Giovanii Bianucci and colleagues recently uncovered an ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

Now researchers have confirmed that an ancient dolphin that lived during the Oligocene Epoch — 33.9 million to 23 million years ago — was the first cetacean ... The skeleton helps to fill ...

But now, paleontologists have uncovered an immense cetacean that was shorter but ... and study co-author Mario Urbina found the partial skeleton 13 years ago among the rocks of the Ica Valley ...

And it all started with the work of Mike deRoos and Michi Main, skeleton articulators for a small company they call Cetacea on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island. The sea otter created by ...