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

A 16.5-million-year-old "unusually complete" baleen whale fossil was found off the Santa Barbara Coast. While discovering the ...

After the storms from 2024 pummeled the Gaviota Coast, fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip ...

The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa ...

March 24, 2025 Minke whales, considered the smallest of the great, or baleen, whale family, can grow to more than 26 feet long and weigh as much as 14,000 pounds, according to NOAA. The whale in ...

Brains from several million years ago don’t exist. But Dr. Holloway’s singular focus on casts of the interiors of skull fossils, which he usually made out of latex, allowed him to override ...

He added that the fossil is the only complete human skull fossil found in South China that allows for precise stratigraphy and reliable dating. "The fossil has value for studies on early human ...

A road-widening project has unearthed four new baleen whales species in Southern California’s Laguna Canyon. The fossil specimens, at 17 to 19 million years old, are the most recently evolved toothed ...