A 20 million-year-old whale fossil has been excavated from a Victorian beach after it was discovered by a family from ...

The Davidson family was taking a leisurely beach walk in Australia when they stumbled on quite a find. A whale fossil estimated to be about 20 million years old. The whale fossil was excavated from ...

The remnants of the ancient vertebrae — believed to be one of the largest whale fossils ever found in Australia — was recovered from under about 1.5 feet of sand on Thursday.

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

Palaeontologists have successfully salvaged a 20-million-year-old whale fossil discovered on the Bellarine Peninsula.

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian scientists say the fossil of a four-legged prehistoric whale, unearthed over a decade ago in the country's Western Desert, is that of a previously unknown species. The creature ...

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened up a whole new mystery: The two bone disks belonged to a North Pacific ...

Interpreting Barnacle Fossils to Track Whale Migration By examining the barnacles on the fossilized whale bone, scientists were able to determine the migration route of the whale. Isotopic signatures ...

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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, ...

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.