36m-year-old fossil discovery is missing link in whale evolution, say researchers
5/15/2017
A newly-discovered fossil is helping close a significant gap in the evolutionary history of the baleen whales by revealing how the ancestors of ...
Baleen whales, also known as mysticetes, are the largest animals in the world. There are 12 baleen whale species divided into 4 families, among ...
About 50 million years ago, the earliest ancestors of whales slipped into the ocean. Generation after generation, the creatures slowly changed, losing ...
5/14/2017
Scientists think they've filled an important gap in whale evolution - the fossilised remains of a specimen that lived around 36.4 million years ago, and is ...
5/11/2017
The latter whales, also known as mysticetes, are filter feeders. They filter their food out of the water and through thick plates of baleen, similar ...
WHALE IN TRANSITION The skull of Mystacodon, a 36-million-year-old whale found in Peru, is an early relative of today's baleen whales. Its skull ...
Scientists have found a new species of whale ancestor — a toothy cetacean that sucked prey into its mouth and likely hunted at the bottom of the ...
Modern whales' ancestors probably hunted and chased down prey, but somehow, those fish-eating hunters evolved into filter-feeding leviathans.
The discovery of a whale fossil dating back to 36.4 million years ago has filled in a gaping hole in the evolution of baleen whales, a group that includes ...
Fossil hunters say they have unearthed a missing link in the evolution of baleen whales after digging up the remains of a creature thought to have ...