A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales. By Carl Zimmer Last August, a team of paleontologists announced that they had ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...
Researchers completed genomic research on carcasses of the largest animals that have ever lived to understand North Atlantic whale populations. By Darren Incorvaia Darren Incorvaia previously wrote ...
People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-metre blue whale to the two-metre dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest ...
An early season blue whale sighting has ocean watchers hopeful there will be more of the world’s largest animal showing up off the local coast. The sighting on Tuesday was about 3 miles off the Dana ...
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