The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to fathom the triumph of baleen whale evolution. "We actually know very little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossil pulled from Victoria's Surf Coast has revealed a very different kind of whale, one built for speed, sight, and killing ...

About 25 million years ago, the warm, shallow seas off the southern coast of Australia were home to a bountiful scene of ocean-dwelling creatures. “In these seas, there was this extraordinary ...

People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-meter blue whale to the two-meter dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest ...

Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...

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 ...

Humpbacks are baleen whales that feed by filtering small fish and plankton from seawater using keratin plates rather than ...

The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the 'triumph' of baleen whale evolution. The new study explores the key genetic ...

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 ...

Comparative Analysis of Candidate PSGs, Lineage-Specific PSG Counts, and Phylogenomic Tree: (a) PSGs − Candidate genes found for each species used in this study. Each lineage is represented by a ...