Baleen whales, known scientifically as Mysticeti, are a fascinating group of marine mammals that have evolved unique feeding mechanisms and adaptations over millions of years. Their fossil record ...

This image shows the upper jaw and skull of Maiabalaena ... on inferences from fossils and studies of fetal-whale development in the womb to piece together clues about how baleen evolved.

Persons reported another rare fossil and a 3D-printed whale skull were also missing ... Boessenecker authored research on the evolution of baleen whales. The research showed toothed whales ...

The baleen whales began developing the long keratin sheets that enable filter feeding. That carried on until about 23 million years ago, when their rate of skull evolution slowed ... findings based on ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

(Nobumichi Tamura.jpg) (CN) — Paleontologists identified fossils from three massive marine ... ichthyosaurs previously found were like modern baleen whales and had no teeth at all. One ichthyosaur ...

The researchers analyzed the largest-ever dataset of 3D scans from 88 living whale species and 113 fossil ... and baleen whales, Mysticeti. Each lineage developed distinct skull specializations ...

A road-widening project has unearthed four new baleen whales species in Southern California’s Laguna Canyon. The fossil specimens, at 17 to 19 million years old, are the most recently evolved toothed ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...