Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

Twenty-six million years ago, a deceptively cute-looking whale hunted off the coast of Australia. Its large eyes and ...

Credit: John Broomfield/Tom Breakwell/Museums Victoria/Cover Images Australian scientists have identified species of ...

A precursor to today's modern whale species, the 25 million-year-old creature was "deceptively cute," according to Erich ...

A 26-million-year-old whale skull, belonging to the newly identified Janjucetus dullardi, has been unearthed at Jan Juc Beach ...

Found on the southern coast of Australia, the species could fill gaps in scientists' understanding of baleen whale evolution ...

From the southeastern shores of Australia, a new fossil has just given us a never-before-seen species of prehistoric baleen whale.

Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might ...

Mucho antes de que las ballenas fueran majestuosos y gentiles gigantes, algunos de sus ancestros prehistóricos eran diminutos ...

Few family trees seem stranger than that of Janjucetus dullardi, only the fourth species ever identified from a group known as mammalodontids, early whales that lived only during the Oligocene ...

Australia is home to a unique bunch of native land mammals, such as koalas, wombats and wallabies. These furballs evolved in isolation on this island continent and have become Australian symbols.