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 ...

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 6 miles east of the Mediterranean, was extraordinary ...

not only to complete the skeleton of Perucetus but also to broaden the understanding of the marine ecosystems from the era in which it lived, the Eocene, a time when the oceans were home to creatures ...

the second-largest species of cetacean on earth. The bones had been trucked up to Wasilla, where Grogan hoped to clean them and eventually rearticulate the fin whale skeleton into an educational ...

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 ...

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 ...