This huge Basilosaurus skull offers an impressive look into the distant past, but the crocodilian fossil beside it is ...

Analysis of its fossilized stomach contents suggests that Basilosaurus isis, an ancient whale that could grow to more than 50 feet long, swam at the top of the food chain and took its prey by the head ...

Over the past 27 years Gingerich and his colleagues have located the remains of more than a thousand whales here, and ...

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Bite force is all the rage lately. This year alone paleontologists have published new bite force estimates for the largest rodent of all time and a prehistoric crocodylian heavyweight. And in the ...

An illustration of German-born fossil collector Albert Koch's "Hydrarchos" as it appeared on display. From Fowler, O.S. 1846. The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Vol. 8. New York: ...

Scientists studying the fossil of a 35-million-year-old whale think they've found one of the top ancient ocean predators. The remains of a 15-metre Basilosaurus whale skeleton, which were found in ...