Sperm whales are the loudest animals on Earth and rely on sound to find food in the sprawling darkness of the deep sea. MBARI ...

Evolving techniques and data indicate some ancient giants like Dunkleosteus and Megalodon may have been smaller than initial estimates suggested.

Every July, tens of thousands of visitors descend on Colombia’s Pacific Coast, crowding the frenzied passenger docks in the ...

Fecal samples, which are scooped up before they dissipate in the water, can be hard to immediately attribute to the right pooper, but a DNA test can help with that. By examining an orca’s poo, ...

A Mississippi man who was helping excavate a mammoth tusk he found ran across a fossil from an extinct whale, millions of years old, just hours later.

Imagine discovering a creature that could be as old as 500 years, swimming in the depths of the ocean. This is exactly what ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles, California, turned up millions of rare fossils dating back ...

Scavengers of the decomposing whale included coyotes, crows and even a turkey vulture, according to Vashon Nature Center ...

People marked the seasons by the arrival and departure of the whales. They fashioned chairs out of giant whale vertebrae that washed up on the beach. Then, in the 1990s, Mr. Rivas said ...

During recent construction work at a Los Angeles high school, millions of fossils were unearthed, many of which were marine ...

Australian lungfish are known to be ultra-survivors, but this lungfish is pushing the boundaries even for its own kind. At ...

Just seven millimetres long, flea toads are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth. Despite their diminutive size, their ...