They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 million years ago, during the Oligocene. So far, fossils belonging to this family ...

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D o dolphins and whales actually play together, or are the dolphins just harassing the whales? Researchers sought to answer this question by looking through hundreds of photographs and video clips in ...

If and when completed, it will be significantly longer than that of the world’s current longest suspension bridge, the 2,023-meter (6,637-foot) long 1915 Çanakkale Bridge that connects the European ...

Yawning is seen in a diverse range of animal species, both those that live on land and underwater, but do all animals yawn? We wanted to know, too.

The good-ish news for any water-loving arachnophobes out there is that diving bell spiders are at least quite small, measuring between 8 to 15 millimeters (0.3 to 0.6 inches) in length, so could be ...

The monolith-like stony structure was a volcanic dike, a sheet of tabular rock that formed when magma set in the fracture of pre-existing rock. This one was found at a depth of 2,040 meters (6,693 ...

However, the most recent definition of long COVID in the US, proposed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ...

For a croc, it seems “surf’s up” is within an hour of the tide changing, as this was the window during which they would begin ...

To test the theory, the study authors examined ethnographic reports from 60 cultures around the world. Summing up their ...

This discovery brings closure to a decades-long mystery and reminds us of the human stories embedded in the history of ...