“The discovery of the new basilosaurid whale, Tutcetus rayanensis, has brought about a substantial shift in our understanding of cetacean life histories during the Eocene epoch,” said lead ...

But here’s the crazy part: the titanic whale weighed anywhere between 93.7 and 374.8 tons (85 and 340 metric tons). In common internet parlance of the 2010s, one could consider the Eocene whale ...

Scientists have described fossils of an early whale unearthed in Peru called Perucetus colossus that lived about 38-40 million years ago during the Eocene epoch.

A life reconstruction of the small Eocene whale T. rayanensis. Illustration: Ahmed Morsi and Hesham Sallam ...

Researchers have since placed the species in the middle Eocene by dating the sediment in which the fossils were found. “This is the first indisputable record of a quadrupedal whale skeleton for ...

All the mammals that existed in the early Tertiary period (65-50 million years ago) lived on land. Therefore the aquatic cetaceans (toothed and baleen whales) that began to appear 50 million years ago ...

These whales lived during the middle Eocene era (roughly 40 million years ago) in present-day Europe, North America, and Africa. Early in the Eocene, ...

Whales first originated in the early Eocene period (about 50 million years ago) on land, evolving into semi-aquatic and then fully aquatic creatures over time.

Because the photo authentically depicted fossilized whale bones that date to the middle or late Eocene epoch and were discovered in Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan, Snopes rated this claim as true. Sources: AP.

Real 37-Million-Year-Old Whale Skeleton Found in Egypt? Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.