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How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid

Baleen is a comb‐like structure that enables mysticete whales to bulk feed on vast quantities of small prey, and ultimately allowed them to become the largest animals on Earth. Because baleen rarely fossilises, extremely little is known about its evolution, structure and function outside the living...

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Опубликовано в: :J Anat
Главные авторы: Marx, Felix G., Collareta, Alberto, Gioncada, Anna, Post, Klaas, Lambert, Olivier, Bonaccorsi, Elena, Urbina, Mario, Bianucci, Giovanni
Формат: Artigo
Язык:Inglês
Опубликовано: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Online-ссылка:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5522891/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542839
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.12622
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