Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

An extraordinary fossil find along Victoria’s Surf Coast has revealed Janjucetus dullardi, a sharp-toothed, dolphin-sized ...

Mucho antes de que las ballenas fueran majestuosos y gentiles gigantes, algunos de sus ancestros prehistóricos eran diminutos ...

A 26-million-year-old whale skull, belonging to the newly identified Janjucetus dullardi, has been unearthed at Jan Juc Beach ...

A precursor to today's modern whale species, the 25 million-year-old creature was "deceptively cute," according to Erich ...

They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 ...

Found on the southern coast of Australia, the species could fill gaps in scientists' understanding of baleen whale evolution ...

Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might ...

A 26-million-year-old fossil from Victoria has unveiled a small, sharp-toothed whale that sheds new light on the origins of today’s baleen giants. With its large eyes, razor-sharp teeth, and compact ...

Researchers this week officially named Janjucetus dullardi, a cartoonish creature with bulging eyes the size of tennis balls, in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Few family trees seem stranger than that of Janjucetus dullardi, only the fourth species ever identified from a group known as mammalodontids, early whales that lived only during the Oligocene ...