The skull came from the Wando River, which today runs past Charleston, South Carolina to the ocean. Thirty million years ago, it was all under the sea. Ancient dolphins and whales swam over what would ...

A skull fossil found in South Carolina has revealed a new ancient dolphin species that slurped its food instead of chewing on it. The fossilized species had a short snout and was toothless, according ...

A closer examination of a fossil found more than four decades ago has led to the identification of a new species of whale—a 33-million-year-old cetacean featuring neither teeth nor baleen. Its ...

A skeleton of the Late Triassic ichthyosaur Shastasaurus liangae. The head is to the right. From Sander et al., 2011 Everybody knows that chewing your food carefully is part of good table manners. No ...

Researchers are continuing to uncover fossil evidence along the coast of South Carolina, led by a faculty member at the College of Charleston, have discovered a species of extinct dolphin. The ...