A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota ... “You find a vertebra here, a chunk of a skull there. To see it all lined out like that is absolutely nuts,” he said.

Imagine a world where enormous beasts clash beneath the waves, locked in a struggle for survival. Picture a creature as long ...

A Pleistocene cave bear skull from Russia's Ural Mountains dominates ... Potter pulled aside a plastic drape to reveal the behemoth bones of a baleen whale. "That moment left me changed for ...

The whale, which is male, was then found dead April 3. Minke whales are considered the smallest of the great, or baleen, whale family, and can grow to more than 26 feet long and weigh as much as ...

A Jupiter resident captured video of a humpback whale breaching close to shore in ... they eat by straining water through bristly baleen plates made of keratin that act like a sieve.

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...