In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists from Monash University and Museums Victoria have unearthed a 26-million-year-old whale skull at Jan Juc Beach in Victoria, Australia. The fossil belongs to a ...

A wasted dig -- Fish, mammal, or dinosaur? -- A whale with legs -- Learning to swim -- When the mountains grew -- Passage to India -- A trip to the beach -- The otter whale -- The ocean is a desert -- ...

VALLEY OF THE WHALES, Egypt (AP) — Egypt has unveiled what it says is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils and showcasing an early form of whales, now extinct and known as the “walking ...

It’s hard to picture now, but long before the Sahara became a sea of sand, it was an actual sea—a shallow, tropical lagoon teeming with life. Today, in Egypt’s Western Desert, where the heat warps the ...