For decades, fossils discovered in Alaska were believed to belong to ancient mammoths, but recent testing has shocked ...

Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

The once-booming population that passed California twice a year has cratered because of retreating sea ice. A new kind of ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Learn all about the unmistakable pilot whale, from their diet and size to life in the pod and why, sadly, they're prone to ...

Researchers studying Caribbean whales and orcas have discovered two new viruses not previously observed in these animals. The ...

Whale ancestors were terrestrial mammals that walked on four legs. This bone structure that helped them walk eventually ...

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

We've never had to buy a stocking stuffer for a gray whale, nor ask them what they'd like under the tree, nor dream up a ...

Wooller knows that mammoths lived on Alaska’s St. Paul Island until about 5,600 years ago and on Russia’s Wrangell Island ...