The fossil record offers snapshots of the past, revealing how life has evolved over millions of years. By studying fossils, ...

Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was found high up in the Himalayas.

(An alternative theory, advanced by paleontologist Hans Thewissen, is that whales descended from an animal similar to Indohyus, a prehistoric deerlike artiodactyl the size of a raccoon that was ...

S mega-fauna, Earth’s largest animals, pale in comparison to the giants that used to roam the Earth. Though that is likely ...

To see if barnacles had the same properties long ago, Taylor hunted down fossils that lived on early humpback whales, and bingo: They did. He hopes to shed light on prehistoric whales’ movements ...

The sinuses of the prehistoric ancestors of crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins, scientists have found. The researchers from Southampton and Edinburgh ...

The newly discovered early whale lived about 43 million years ago The fossil of a 43-million-year-old whale with four legs, webbed feet and hooves has been discovered in Peru. Palaeontologists ...

The very first “whales” were land animals that walked on four legs — small deer-like creatures, about the size of a house cat, that ate plants and waded around in prehistoric lagoons over 50 ...