A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Its neck vertebrae are shorter ... But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares new, whale-like features with the whales we know today, and in the fossil record, we can observe ...

In all, paleontologists excavated 13 vertebrae ... and colleagues created 3-D scans of the fossil bones to make a digital ...

“but we found not just whales but a host of other vertebrate fossils, including those of snakes.” Among these fossils was a collection of 27 vertebrae measuring up to 6 centimetres long and 11 ...

They then noted that today’s giant marine creatures—such as whale ... vertebrae sizes correlate with body length is logical, it’s not foolproof. It remains to be seen whether future fossil ...

According to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology ... from a very large ichthyosaur comparable in size to the blue whale, Sander said, pointing to jaw fossils from the ...