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 ...

Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. 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 ...

Twenty-six million years ago, a deceptively cute-looking whale hunted off the coast of Australia. Its large eyes and razor-sharp teeth made it a formidable predator. This whale, named Janjucetus ...