As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out, "In one sense, evolution didn't invent anything new with whales. It was just tinkering with land mammals. It's using the old to make the new." ...

Adding to this understanding, a new study may help explain a longstanding puzzle in science ... the blue whale. Rorquals swim ...

Their model accurately calculated the body volume and mass of wild southern right whales. Already being used ... Society journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE).

Anton van Helden, a senior marine science ... teeth in the whale’s upper jaw. In a study of other beaked whale species, researchers determined that vestigial teeth receded as evolution favored ...

Researchers believe the discovery could shed light on the evolution of the whale and how it spread. "This is the most complete specimen ever found for a four-legged whale outside of India and ...

“Not only was this tohorā (whale) the first of its kind to be dissected by science, but it was also ... like this are considered remnants of evolution, demonstrating that they once served ...

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When a 16-foot, 3,000-pound mystery whale washed ashore on the South Island of New Zealand in July, even the world’s foremost ...