The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

Meet Livyatan melvillei—a prehistoric sperm whale that truly lived up to the name “leviathan.” In this video, we dive into ...

The biggest blue whale ever recorded weighed 190 tonnes, according to Guinness World Records. But the researchers estimated the ancient whale’s weight range was between 85 and 340 tonnes ...

Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost its legs, and all of its vital systems became adapted to a ...

This image shows the upper jaw and skull of Maiabalaena nesbittae. Whales were the first mammals to evolve baleen, and no other mammal uses any anatomical structure even remotely similar to it to ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in present-day Pakistan. Although it looked nothing like a whale, Pakicetus displayed ...

"The anatomical differences between whales and terrestrial mammals are so great that innumerable in-between stages must have paddled and swam the ancient seas before a whale as we know it appeared ...

To see if barnacles had the same properties long ago, Taylor hunted down fossils that lived on early humpback whales, and bingo: They did. He hopes to shed light on prehistoric whales’ movements ...

And although the geologists didn’t realize it at the time, the prehistoric specimens in the sand would offer clues to one of evolution’s most nagging questions: how whales became whales in the ...