Mark Uhen News Today

Paleontologist Robert Boessenecker is at the center of an investigation into rare fossils that disappeared from the College of Charlestons Mace Brown Museum.

Marine biologist Sarika Cullis-Suzuki (daughter of David Suzuki) began her co-hosting gig on CBC-TV’s The Nature of Things, with the Jan. 11 episode “The Mystery of the Walking Whale”. View

The newly discovered Tutcetus rayanensis lived about 40 million years ago. It was just 2.5 meters long and weighed less than 200 kilograms.

A tooth found in North Carolina was identified recently as perhaps coming from a 4-legged whale that swam all the way from Pakistan.

Increasing fossil finds are helping researchers understand how such early whales made their way to the continent