Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

The specimen, likely to be of the ancestors of modern whales, would have helped geologists assess the paleontological ...

When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern Peru's Ica Valley, they weren't immediately impressed — mostly because the bones ...

Our ancient ancestors were using bone tools at least 1.5 million years ago, roughly a million years earlier than was previously thought, a study published last week in the journal Nature reported. The ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other bodily outputs.

Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale nuzzles up to its mother. Then, a cloud of dark yellow urine gushes into the water ...