Frontiers in Marine ScienceOrcas (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predators of the ocean, targeting multiple taxa including teleost fishes, elasmobranchs, seabirds, sea turtles, pinnipeds, odontocetes and other large cetaceans.
Frederick Toro
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Gigantic mysticete predators roamed the Eocene Southern Ocean [PDF]
Antarctic Science, 2019 Modern baleen whales (Mysticeti), the largest animals on Earth, arose from small ancestors around 36.4 million years ago (Ma). True gigantism is thought to have arisen late in mysticete history, with species exceeding 10 m unknown prior to 8 Ma.
F. G. Marx +5 more
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Demography of an ice-obligate mysticete in a region of rapid environmental change
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis, AMW) are an abundant, ice-dependent species susceptible to rapid climatic changes occurring in parts of the Antarctic.
L. Pallin +16 more
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Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales. [PDF]
Current Biology, 2017 Althoughcombinedmolecular andmorphological analyses point to a latemiddle Eocene (38–39million years ago) origin for the clade Neoceti (Odontoceti, echolocating toothed whales plus Mysticeti, baleen whales, and relatives), the oldest knownmysticete ...
O. Lambert +7 more
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Taphonomy of a Mysticete Whale from the Lower Pliocene of the Coast of Cádiz (Spain)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 A fossil mysticete was discovered along the southwestern coast of Spain, occurring in a block detached from the Neogene deposits exposed along a coastal cliff at the locality of Conil de la Frontera (Cádiz, Spain).
Giulia Bosio +6 more
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The oldest mysticete in the Northern Hemisphere.
Current BiologyExtant baleen whales (Mysticeti) uniquely use keratinous baleen for filter-feeding and lack dentition, but the fossil record clearly shows that "toothed" baleen whales first appeared in the Late Eocene.1 Globally, only two Eocene mysticetes have been ...
Cheng-Hsiu Tsai +2 more
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Sparse representation-based classification of mysticete calls.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018 This paper presents an automatic classification method dedicated to mysticete calls. This method relies on sparse representations which assume that mysticete calls lie in a linear subspace described by a dictionary-based representation.
Thomas Guilment +3 more
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Tracking the Development of Muscular Myoglobin Stores in Mysticete Calves. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 For marine mammals, the ability to tolerate apnea and make extended dives is a defining adaptive trait, facilitating the exploitation of marine food resources.
Rachel Cartwright +11 more
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Capture and Release of Minke Whales Offers New Research Opportunities Including Measurements of Mysticete Hearing [PDF]
bioRxivKnowledge about species-specific hearing is vital to assessing how anthropogenic noise impacts marine mammals. Unfortunately, no empirical audiogram exists for any mysticete whale.
L. Kleivane +7 more
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Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The evolution of filter feeding in baleen whales (Mysticeti) facilitated a wide range of ecological diversity and extreme gigantism. The innovation of filter feeding evolved in a shift from a mineralized upper and lower dentition in stem mysticetes to ...
Carlos Mauricio Peredo +3 more
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