Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a whale,

The tiny predators were an early branch on the line that led to baleen whales, such as humpbacks, blues and minkes

A newly identified species of ancient whale reveals how the first baleen relatives hunted, sensed their world, and grew.