It’s a whale of a discovery. Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a ...

The fossil record of baleen whales (Mysticeti) offers a window into one of the most dramatic evolutionary transitions among mammals. Early cetaceans evolved from terrestrial artiodactyl ancestors ...

Notes This fossilized tympanic bulla, the bony structure that encloses the ear bones, is from a Parietobalaena, an extinct genus of the Baleen whale. This bone is 3cm thick and measures 6cm x 4cm.

A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History after its ...

Ubitus, a global leader in cloud streaming and AI technology, has partnered with the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) in Taichung to launch an AI-powered intelligent tour guide system for the ...

“We didn’t know how to age baleen whales until 1955, which was the very end of industrial whaling,” University of Alaska Fairbanks associate professor Greg Breed said in the news release.