Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ontocetus posti has post-canine teeth, a larger lower canine, and a fused and short mandibular symphysis. [Related: Abandoned ...

Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses. By Asher Elbein ...

A new discovery by a team of paleontologists, led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville (University of Tsukuba, Japan), has uncovered a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from the Lower Pleistocene ...

An extinct walrus-like species was recently discovered using fossils found in the U.K., according to a new study. Image from Jamie Bran Two million years ago, a walrus-like creature with large tusks ...