WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...
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The secret storeroom holding ancient Thames whale skeletons

An underground museum storeroom reveals ancient whale skeletons found in the Thames, then carefully cleaned, examined, and ...
Perucetus colossus became one of the most controversial whale discoveries in modern paleontology after scientists uncovered gigantic fossilized bones buried beneath the Peruvian desert . Early ...