For years, there have been stories and photographs of “odd-looking” killer whales lurking in some of the roughest parts of the sub-Antarctic seas. Named Type D killer whales, these whales are quite ...

In 1841, in the early days of paleontology, the notoriously cantankerous anatomist Richard Owen, the man who would later coin the term “dinosaur,” stood before his colleagues at the Geological Society ...

Whales are the largest living animals that have ever existed on this Earth. A blue whale growing to a whopping 110 feet in length, outweighing even the dinosaurs. But curiously their story begins from ...

(CNN) — Scientists have confirmed the discovery of two massive new dinosaur species in northwest China — some of the first vertebrates uncovered in the region, according to a new study published ...

A blue whale, the largest known creature in Earth's history, dives into the St. Lawrence river in Quebec, Canada. Sorin Papuc / Alamy We live in an age of giants. That might sound strange, given the ...

Welcome to Fossil Friday, a weekly collection of the coolest fossil finds of the week. This week’s finds include a bejeweled dinosaur, three new whales and a strange flea. An as- yet unnamed new ...

When Charles “Stormy” Mayo helped found the Provincetown-based Center for Coastal Studies in 1976, he said there were very few, if any, North Atlantic right whales for him to study in Cape Cod Bay in ...

A man clicks photos of a complete articulated skeleton of a Sauropod dinosaur at a museum in Kunming, in southwest China’s Yunnan province (AFP via Getty Images) Two new species of massive dinosaurs ...