At first glance, dolphins, sharks, and whales all cut similar figures as they glide through the ocean: sleek fins, smooth ...

As he celebrates his 100th birthday, ThePrint looks back at how David Attenborough’s iconic voice turned the natural world ...

A paper in Genome Biology and Evolution discovers that the endangered Mediterranean fin whale is not completely isolated from ...

BELOIT — Evidence that ancestors of today’s whales once walked on the land and how digital imaging technology can help unlock mysteries of the past were explored Saturday during the Roy Chapman ...

BELOIT — Nick Pyenson, a top expert on whale evolution, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of The Roy Chapman Andrews Society (RCAS) Distinguished Explorer Award. Pyenson will be presented with ...

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. ―Darwin Compared with other mammals, human beings have large brains and access to types of intelligence that other animals ...

You don’t have to book a beach vacation to see a blue whale this year—just head to the Saint Louis Science Center. Families can come face-to-fin with the largest creature ever to live on Earth when ...

A male sperm whale can grow to weigh as much as 45 tons, and that's a lot for a creature of this world. The female of the same species, however, is three times lighter, and would be a perfect fit (in ...

I don't remember the aviation industry ever being as dynamic as it is today. Everywhere you look, people and companies are working on new aircraft designs, be they in the form of helicopters, VTOLs, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism. By Carl Zimmer Charles Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution in 1859, in “On the Origin of Species.” But it took ...