A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Tutcetus rayanensis swimming in the Tethys ocean of present-day Egypt, 41 million years ago, in an illustration. Antarctic blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, can reach 98 feet from mouth to ...

Dr James Rule (L) and Dr Erich Fitzgerald (R) with the Murray River whale fossil at Melbourne Museum. Credit: Eugene Hyland. Source: Museums Victoria Dr James Rule (L) and Dr Erich Fitzgerald (R) with ...

Groundbreaking new research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales. Palaeontologists ...

Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost ...

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