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Antarctic baleen whales: history and prospects
Polar Record, 1976Whalers and sealers were the first people to visit the southern oceans in numbers, and in the 1930's Antarctic whaling accounted for some 12 per cent (by weight) of the total harvest of fish and other animals from the sea. It was the importance of the whaling industry and the need to know more about the physical and biological system on which it was ...
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On the evolution of baleen whales
Science, 2018Evolutionary Biology Baleen whales include the largest animals that have ever lived, but their evolutionary history has been difficult to decipher because of conflicting evidence from genes and morphology. Arnason et al. conducted whole-genome sequencing of the blue whale and five other baleen species to reconstruct their evolutionary history in detail.
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Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales
NatureBaleen whales (mysticetes) use vocalizations to mediate their complex social and reproductive behaviours in vast, opaque marine environments1. Adapting to an obligate aquatic lifestyle demanded fundamental physiological changes to efficiently produce sound, including laryngeal specializations2-4.
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Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward
Current BiologyThe mysticetes - baleen whales and their toothed ancestors - have a long evolutionary history that, despite many recent paleontological discoveries, remains highly debated. The description of a new mysticete from the latest Eocene of North America opens promising new research directions.
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‘Missing link’ baleen whale fossil found?
New Scientist, 2017The current idea is that the ancestors of baleen whales lost their normal teeth and only later evolved a sieve. But the skull of a previously unknown species of whale suggests alternatively that they started filter feeding by adapting teeth to act as sieves.
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A whale's life, inscribed in baleen
Science, 2015Fibrous keratin can store a chemical record of pregnancies and stress.
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Case studies on longitudinal mercury content in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) baleen
Heliyon, 2022Carley Lowe +2 more
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