For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

Why it's incredible: The valley holds hundreds of primitive whale skeletons, some of which have "feet." Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale ...

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 ...

Ocean Grove beachgoers have discovered an ancient whale fossil in rock pools, with experts confirming the bones are 20 ...

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum history and surprising scientists worldwide.

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, ...

A fossil pulled from Victoria’s Surf Coast has revealed a very different kind of whale, one built for speed, sight, and killing power. Measuring just over two metres, Janjucetus dullardi had large ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized remains were kept at a museum for decades before closer investigations ...

VALLEY OF THE WHALES, Egypt (AP) — Egypt has unveiled what it says is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils and showcasing an early form of whales, now extinct and known as the “walking ...