With large eyes, razor-sharp teeth and a compact body built for hunting, Janjucetus dullardi is nothing like the gentle ...

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

Long before the ocean’s largest filter-feeders roamed the seas, their smaller, sharper cousins ruled the warm shallows. One ...

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

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

Twenty-six million years ago, a deceptively cute-looking whale hunted off the coast of Australia. Its large eyes and ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of prehistoric baleen whale, the human-sized _Janjucetus dullardi_, that roamed the waters around Australia 26 million years ago.

Credit: John Broomfield/Tom Breakwell/Museums Victoria/Cover Images Australian scientists have identified species of ...

From the southeastern shores of Australia, a new fossil has just given us a never-before-seen species of prehistoric baleen whale.

Meet Janjucetus dullardi, an early cousin of today’s whales that roamed the sea 26 million years ago.

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