Janjucetus dullardi “might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a whale, a seal, and a Pokémon,” according to Erich Fitzgerald, a senior paleontologist at Museums ...

The newly discovered whale is a cartoonish creature with bulging eyes the size of tennis balls, which lived 25 million years ...

Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance ...

A precursor to today's modern whale species, the 25 million-year-old creature was "deceptively cute," according to Erich ...

A 26-million-year-old whale skull, belonging to the newly identified Janjucetus dullardi, has been unearthed at Jan Juc Beach ...

A partial skull chanced upon in Australia in 2019 has been declared a newly discovered, extinct species of whale and given ...

The tiny predators were an early branch on the line that led to baleen whales, such as humpbacks, blues and minkes ...

A new species of prehistoric whale has been discovered in Australia: Janjucetus dullardi. The fossil of a 25-million-year-old specimen was found on Jan Juc Beach in 2019. Unlike modern baleen whales, ...

A 26-million-year-old fossil from Victoria has unveiled a small, sharp-toothed whale that sheds new light on the origins of today’s baleen giants. With its large eyes, razor-sharp teeth, and compact ...