15-million-year-old baby whale fossil reveals ancient breeding grounds

8/22/2017
New information about the habits of extinct whales may shed light on the behaviour of their modern relatives, writes Andrew Masterson.
Open suture between the supraoccipital and exoccipital in (A) a fossil baleen whale (Parietobalaena yamaokai) and (B) a fetal specimen of blue whale ...
Baleen whales are amongst the largest animals to have ever lived and yet very little is known about their breeding habits. One researcher's second ...

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