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Multiple origins of gigantism in stem baleen whales
The Science of Nature, 2016Living baleen whales (Mysticeti) include the world's largest animals to have ever lived-blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) can reach more than 30 m. However, the gigantism in baleen whales remains little explored. Here, we compiled all published stem mysticetes from the Eocene and Oligocene and then mapped the estimated body size onto different ...
Cheng-Hsiu Tsai, Naoki Kohno
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2019
During the night of 13 to 14 March, the Nautilus continued on its route southwards. I thought that once at Cape Horn it would set sail for the west, in order to head for the seas of the Pacific and thus complete...
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During the night of 13 to 14 March, the Nautilus continued on its route southwards. I thought that once at Cape Horn it would set sail for the west, in order to head for the seas of the Pacific and thus complete...
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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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Right Whale Feeding and Baleen Rattle
Journal of Mammalogy, 1976Surface and subsurface feeding behavior of right whales, Eubalaena glacialis (Borowski, 1781), has been observed in Cape Cod waters since 1956. During surface feeding the whales follow discrete rows of concentrated plankton, and in subsurface feeding they also appear to be feeding on specific patches of food at particular depths and localities.
W. A. Watkins, W. E. Schevill
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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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II.—The Baleen Whales of the South Atlantic
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1915Whaling companies have for some years successfully conducted a whale fishery off the shores of the South Shetlands, Graham Land, South Orkneys, and South Georgia, where the waters of the Antarctic mingle with the South Atlantic Ocean.
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