Why it's incredible: The valley holds hundreds of primitive whale skeletons, some of which have "feet." Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale ...

A rare whale fossil is getting a new home an estimated 16 to 17 million years since it landed in what would become a Rancho Palos Verdes, Southern California, backyard. There are just 20 or so baleen ...

A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new group in the sperm whale family, Albicetus, and introduced the species, ...

A fossil pulled from Victoria’s Surf Coast has revealed a very different kind of whale, one built for speed, sight, and killing power. Measuring just over two metres, Janjucetus dullardi had large ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...

VALLEY OF THE WHALES, Egypt (AP) — Egypt has unveiled what it says is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils and showcasing an early form of whales, now extinct and known as the “walking ...

They were mammoth bones… until they weren’t. For more than 70 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) was believed to have come from the Ice ...

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. During the museum's Adopt-a-Mammoth program, which ...