Nick Pyenson first fell in love with natural history museums ... Seeing the skeletons of large animals, especially those of whales, got him thinking about the stories marine mammals had to tell. In ...

In his book Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures, paleontologist Nick Pyenson examines the fascinating features of these animals—from their enormous size, ...

Today, Nick Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals ... together are most closely related to one another among all other whales). Though decidedly low-tech, paleontologists have hand-carried ...

The following is an excerpt from Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson. I was never a whale hugger. I didn’t fall asleep snuggling stuffed ...

“Will we be intimidated?” These are just some of the questions circling in our minds before cameraman Nick Porter and I set out to film whale sharks, the largest living fish, off the coast of Qata ...