Imagine standing on a muddy riverbank 50 million years ago and seeing a strange creature lumbering by—part crocodile, part ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

A team from the Marine Mammal Center took initial skin and blubber samples via a research vessel on Friday morning, April 18, and identified the whale as an adult female. As of Monday, April 21 ...

Let’s dive into the world of giants — from the deep sea to dry land — and get to know the planet’s most colossal creatures.

Of the four whales that have washed up on Orange and Los Angeles county beaches this year, two had high levels of domoic acid poisoning confirmed in their systems, leading marine mammal experts to ...

The whale marks the fourth dead gray whale and fifth whale overall to wash up in the San Francisco Bay this year, according to the Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The latest ...

Officials called the latest outbreak one of the largest, saying it has led to illness or death of thousands of marine mammals and birds in recent months. Whales found dead along Southern ...