In this short animation, produced for primary school children by Green.TV, supported by the Wellcome Trust, we look at the remarkable evolution of the whale from a land-based dog-like animal to the ...

Egypt's Whale Valley, or "Wadi Al-Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals. When you ...

An extraordinary fossil find along Victoria’s Surf Coast has revealed Janjucetus dullardi, a sharp-toothed, dolphin-sized predator that lived 26 million years ago. With large eyes, slicing teeth, and ...

Knowledge of the evolution of whales eating other whales is pushed back to 35 million years ago by a fossil find in Egypt. Manja Voss in Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt Manja Voss Fossilised whale remains found ...

Did you know whales evolved from a land-based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To explore the evidence, we need to look at the desert, which may seem strange when discussing whales. The ocean once ...

A 26-million-year-old whale skull, belonging to the newly identified Janjucetus dullardi, has been unearthed at Jan Juc Beach in Australia. This Oligocene-era predator, unlike modern baleen whales, ...