Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 years ago. New research reveals that Stone Age humans were systematically ...

Luckily, three of the centre’s skeletons — a Risso’s dolphin, a Dall’s porpoise and a pygmy sperm ... a process to take every rib off the vertebrae and separate everything.

Instead, scientists examine growth bands in vertebrae, though these bands may not form annually ... sea lions, dolphins, and porpoises into their diet. This shift coincides with physical changes in ...

A total of 13 gigantic vertebrae – one of which weighed nearly 200 kilograms ... Today's cetaceans include dolphins, whales and porpoises, but their early ancestors lived on land, some resembling ...

The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of ...

RARE FIND: World whale and dolphin expert professor Ewan Fordyce checks out the body of a rare spectacled porpoise found on a Dunedin beach.WILMA McKAY / Fairfax NZ Otago researchers say the quick ...

The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing the ...