A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Balaenopterid mysticetes represent the most successful family-rank group of this clade. Their evolutionary history is characterized by a rich fossil record but the origin of the living genera is still largely not understood. Recent discoveries
Michelangelo Bisconti +2 more
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A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The Pisco-Ica and Sacaco basins of southern Peru are renowned for their abundance of exceptionally preserved fossil cetaceans, several of which retain traces of soft tissue and occasionally even stomach contents.
Felix G. Marx, Naoki Kohno
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Український антарктичний журнал, 2020 Antarctic Peninsula region is experiencing one of the fastest rates of climate change on Earth. Its waters are known as important feeding grounds for the Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis).
O. Savenko
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A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background The rich fossil record of rorqual and humpback whales (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) is mainly characterized by monotypic genera since genera including more than one species are extremely rare.
Michelangelo Bisconti +4 more
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Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Living baleen whales (mysticetes) are bulk filter feeders that use keratinous baleen plates to filter food from prey laden water. Extant mysticetes are born entirely edentulous, though they possess tooth buds early in ontogeny, a trait inherited from ...
Carlos Mauricio Peredo +1 more
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Using multivariate generalized linear latent variable models to measure the difference in event count for stranded marine animals [PDF]
Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 2021 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The classification of marine animals as protected species makes data and information on them to be very important. Therefore, this led to the need to retrieve and understand the data on the event counts for stranded marine ...
R.E. Caraka +6 more
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Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Rorqual whales are among the most species rich group of baleen whales (or mysticetes) alive today, yet the monophyly of the traditional grouping (i.e., Balaenopteridae) remains unclear.
Matthew S. Leslie +2 more
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Marine mammal skin microbiotas are influenced by host phylogeny [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Skin-associated microorganisms have been shown to play a role in immune function and disease of humans, but are understudied in marine mammals, a diverse animal group that serve as sentinels of ocean health.
Amy Apprill +10 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 This study summarizes the postmortem investigations of 73 cetaceans stranded on the coast of Taiwan between 2001 and 2013, including 51 Delphinidae, 17 Kogiidae, 3 Ziphiidae, 1 Physeteridae, and 1 Balaenopteridae.
Wen-Ta Li +5 more
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2021 Archaebalaenoptera eusebioi is a new late Miocene (Tortonian) balaenopterid species from the Aguada de Lomas locality in the Pisco Formation, Peru. It is dated to 8.85–7.93 Ma and is represented by a nearly complete skull with cervical vertebrae. Its inferred body length and mass are respectively c. 7 m and 7–11 tonnes.
Michelangelo Bisconti +3 more
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