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Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru) [PDF]
Life, 2020 Several aspects of the fascinating evolutionary history of toothed and baleen whales (Cetacea) are still to be clarified due to the fragmentation and discontinuity (in space and time) of the fossil record.
Giovanni Bianucci +3 more
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Evidence for convergent evolution of ultrasonic hearing in toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti) [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2019 Toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti) are the most diverse group of modern cetaceans, originating during the Eocene/Oligocene transition approximately 38 Ma.
Rachel A. Racicot +3 more
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Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae)
J. Cetacean Res. Manage., 2023 Information regarding beaked whales is so sparse that even the most basic aspects of their biology, such as their distribution, remain poorly defined for some species.
C. MacLeod +9 more
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Ecomorphology of toothed whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti) as revealed by 3D skull geometry
Journal of mammalian evolution, 2023 Extant odontocetes (toothed whales) exhibit differences in body size and brain mass, biosonar mode, feeding strategies, and diving and habitat adaptations.
Deborah Vicari +6 more
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2022 Platanistoidea remains one of the most evolutionarily intriguing lineages of toothed whales (Odontoceti). The clade comprises mostly extinct species from the late Oligocene–early Miocene onward and a single extant riverine genus (Platanista). There is an
M. Viglino +4 more
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Tattoo Skin Disease in Cetacea: A Review, with New Cases for the Northeast Pacific
Animals, 2022 Simple Summary We review the literature on tattoo skin disease (TSD), a poxviral dermatopathy of cetaceans, and provide new insights. In addition, new necropsy reports for fifty-five harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), twenty-two Delphinidae and four ...
M. Van Bressem +2 more
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Papers in Palaeontology, 2020 The moderately rich past diversity of the superfamily Inioidea (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans contrasts with the present survival of a single genus (Inia, Amazon river dolphin, family Iniidae) in freshwater deposits of ...
Olivier Lambert +6 more
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Animals, 2022 We investigated the relationship between age and body length, and age at sexual maturity of Physeter macrocephalus individuals stranded along the Italian coast.
Nicola Maio +17 more
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PERCEPÇÃO DE ALUNOS DE GRADUAÇÃO SOBRE ECOLOGIA E CONSERVAÇÃO DE CETÁCEOS, FORTALEZA-CE
Holos, 2021 Cetáceos são mamíferos aquáticos que habitam boa parte do globo, e que tornaram-se ameaçadas devido a ações como caças ilegais, poluição e turismo. Com isso, objetivou-se avaliar a percepção de alunos de graduação sobre Ecologia e Conservação de Cetáceos.
Marcos Adelino Almeida Filho +4 more
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Are Dolphins Kept in Impoverished Environments?
Animals, 2023 Numerous studies have demonstrated the negative effects of impoverished environments versus the positive effects of enriched environments on animals’ cognitive and neural functioning.
Kelly Jaakkola
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