The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...

"The fossils were actually ... marine mammal - an early type of whale known as a basilosaurid. These included 13 vertebrae, four ribs and part of a hip bone. But even given these fragmentary ...

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...

Whales were the first mammals ... is more like that of hair or fingernails than bone, does not preserve well. It is rarely found in the fossil record, leaving paleontologists without direct ...

The fossil whale bones have both extensive in-filling and extra growth of bone on the outside as well, a condition called pachyostosis also seen in some modern aquatic mammals, such as manatees.

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any ... researchers identified preserved collagen remnants in the hip bone of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur ...

The largest animal we know of is the blue whale, a species that still lives ... what was believed to be massive fossilized ichthyosaur bones. The ichthyosaur is a sea-dwelling reptile that was ...

believed to belong to a whale ancestor from 35–40 million years ago, were reported missing by locals in Tolegre village, South Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, on January 27. The fossils were ...

The whale skeleton was kept in a barn at Constable Burton for many years A stately home has appealed for people to return bones from a whale skeleton described in the book Moby Dick. Burton ...

MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale ... upper jaw bone, the shape ...