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A basilosaurid archaeocete (Cetacea, Pelagiceti) from the Late Eocene of Oregon, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Basilosaurid archaeocetes are known from the Late Eocene of virtually all coastlines bearing coeval marine rocks except the North Pacific Basin, until now.
Mark D. Uhen, David Taylor
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Nuevo registro de un cachalote (Physeter macrocephalus) varado y una revisión de varamientos en las costas de Argentina continental [PDF]
, 2011 Presentamos un nuevo registro de un cachalote, con notas sobre la dieta, la determinación de edad y la presencia de parásitos, junto con una revisión de los varamientos a lo largo de toda la costa continental argentina.
Crespo, Enrique Alberto +8 more
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Diversity, 2023 The early diverging, dolphin-sized, cetacean clade Xenorophidae are a short-lived radiation of toothed whales (Odontoceti) that independently evolved two features long thought to be odontocete synapomorphies: the craniofacial and cochlear morphology ...
Robert W. Boessenecker +1 more
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, 1982 James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl (1982): Order Cetacea. In: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (1st Edition). Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections: 290-304, ISBN: 0-89327-235-3, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
Honacki, James H. +2 more
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An Unparalleled Sexual Dimorphism of Sperm Whale Encephalization [PDF]
, 2016 The sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) is the largest toothed whales and possesses the highest absolute values for brain weight on the planet (together with the killer whale Orcinus orca).
Cozzi, Bruno +4 more
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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
M. Bisconti, D. Munsterman, K. Post
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Establishing death in stranded Odontocetes (toothed whales) using other mammals : a pilot study : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2003 The aim of this study was to investigate and evaluate a new method for determining death in stranded odontocetes (toothed whales). The new method was using the pulsations seen in the retinal blood vessels in the place of the heart rate. The retinal blood
Paul, Katherine A
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Recent whale strandings in northern Tasmania [PDF]
, 1975 Three strandings of whales have recently occurred on the north coast of Tasmania. They involve a single pilot whale, Globicephala sp., amd two large schools of the false killer whale, Pseudorca ...
Green, RH, Scott, EOG
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PeerJ, 2019 Cetotheriidae are a group of small baleen whales (Mysticeti) that evolved alongside modern rorquals. They once enjoyed a nearly global distribution, but then largely went extinct during the Plio-Pleistocene.
F. G. Marx +3 more
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Comparative Anatomy of the Bony Labyrinth (Inner Ear) of Placental Mammals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND:Variation is a naturally occurring phenomenon that is observable at all levels of morphology, from anatomical variations of DNA molecules to gross variations between whole organisms. The structure of the otic region is no exception.
Eric G Ekdale
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