"We have presented the new Peruvian basilosaurus, it is the complete skull of an archaic whale that lived 36 million years ago," paleontologist Mario Urbina, head of the team that discovered the ...

Despite its sinuous, snake-like body and a name that means “king lizard”, Basilosaurus was in fact an ancestor of modern whales. While the prehistoric cetacean’s jagged teeth clearly mark it ...

And in the pages of PLOS ONE, Eric Snively, Julia Fahlke, and Robert Welsh have brought another superlative chomper to attention – the early whale Basilosaurus. The ancient toothmarks offered ...

Among the most impressive of these new beasts were the basilosaurids. Named after Basilosaurus, one of the first fossil whales ever discovered, these oceanic carnivores were seagoing success stories.

Researchers digging in Peru's Ocucaje desert have uncovered the skull of an enormous marine predator thought to be the ancestor of modern whales and dolphins. Four feet long (1.2 meters) and lined ...

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The huge Basilosaurus fossil, a whale within a whale, eaten by sharks. The huge Basilosaurus fossil, a whale within a whale, eaten by sharks. Egypt Ministry of Environment It gets weirder ...

At sunset one evening last November, Gin­gerich, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Michigan, lay full length beside the spinal column of the creature, called Basilosaurus ...

In an email to Snopes, Gingerich, who has conducted research at Wadi Al-Hitan, confirmed the bones indeed belong to the Basilosaurus isis species, which lived around 37 million years ago.

The bones found in what was a shallow sea near the Gulf of Mexico about 45 million years ago were initially thought to be those of a giant lizard, and so it was named Basilosaurus cetoides ...

The stomach contents of ancient whale Basilosaurus isis suggest it was an apex predator, according to a new study. The stomach contents of ancient whale Basilosaurus isis suggest it was an apex ...