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All Articles Tagged As: whales
 | Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr. Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25-million-year-old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria. ...> Full Article |
 | In 2006, a team of Spanish and American researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Bonares, Huelva. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and fossilization process that started with the death of the young cetacean, possibly a baleen whale from the Mysticeti group. ...> Full Article |
 | Warm climate 15 million years ago led to unique bone bed of shark teeth and seal bones ...> Full Article |
A limestone countertop, a practiced eye and Google Earth all played roles in the discovery of a trove of fossils that may shed light on the origins of African wildlife.
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Two newly described fossil whales -- a pregnant female and a male of the same species -- reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.
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 | Elevated levels of phosphorus, organic carbon, and calcium being caused by whale bones ...> Full Article |
 | New fossils pinpoint where tail flukes developed in the evolution of whales. ...> Full Article |
Recent findings by a Russian-American research team suggest that prehistoric cultures were hunting whales at least 3,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than was previously known
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 | Scientists have discovered the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors. The result is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). ...> Full Article |
 | The mysterious missing link between marine mammals known as cetaceans -- a group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises -- and their land-based mammal ancestors has been found. ...> Full Article |
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