Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Baleen whales (mysticetes) lack teeth as adults and instead filter feed using keratinous baleen plates. They do not echolocate with ultrasonic frequencies like toothed whales but are instead known for infrasonic acoustics.
B. K. Shipps +2 more
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Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter-feeding in baleen whales [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021 Extant baleen whales (Mysticeti) have a deciduous foetal dentition, but are edentulous at birth. Fossils reveal that the earliest mysticetes possessed an adult dentition.
E. Ekdale, T. Deméré
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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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Validation of a computational model of bone conduction sound reception in mysticetes. [PDF]
PLoS ONEComputational models serve as useful complements to physical experiments, but they require validation to build confidence in their applicability. This study outlines the validation of biomechanical models for mysticete sound reception, specifically using
Petr Krysl +3 more
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Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 A new, fully dated total-evidence phylogeny of baleen whales (Mysticeti) shows that evolutionary phases correlate strongly with Caenozoic modernization of the oceans and climates, implying a major role for bottom-up physical drivers.
Felix G. Marx, R. Ewan Fordyce
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Humpback whale masked hearing thresholds in noise measured with modified behavioral observation audiometry [PDF]
Communications BiologyAudiograms are available for multiple species of odontocetes (toothed whales). However, there are no empirically measured audiograms for any mysticete (baleen whale) meaning their hearing sensitivity is inferred.
Rebecca A. Dunlop +2 more
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Strontium in fin whale baleen: A potential tracer of mysticete movements across the oceans?
Science of the Total Environment, 2019 Strontium is a metal broadly distributed in oceanic waters, where its concentrations follow gradients mainly driven by oceanographic and biological factors.
Morgana Vighi
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Frontiers in Conservation ScienceThe Salish Sea supports several baleen whale species, including humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), gray (Eschrichtius robustus) and minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).
J. K. Olson +8 more
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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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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.
Ana M. García-Cegarra +7 more
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