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second-oldest mysticete, yielded a total length of 8 meters (26 ft), indicating filter feeding was not a driving feature in mysticete evolution. The...

mysticetes. Using parsimony to study this and other ancestral characters suggests that the common ancestor of aetiocetids and edentulous mysticetes evolved...

thought to have had their last common ancestor around 34 million years ago. Mysticetes include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals)...

Aetiocetus is a genus of extinct basal mysticete, or baleen whale that lived 33.9 to 23.03 million years ago, in the Oligocene in the North Pacific ocean...

occurred once, and both occurred on the mysticete stem branch. Generally it is speculated the four modern mysticete families have separate origins among...

signature whistles that bottlenose dolphins use as individual labels. Mysticetes do not have phonic lip structure. Instead, they have a larynx that appears...

rely more on marine mammals as in C. carcharias. The bone of a scavenged mysticete whale with a tooth of C. hubbelli embedded within it supports this hypothesis...

1056. PMC 1692962. PMID 12028787. Bannister JL (2008). "Baleen Whales (Mysticetes)". In Perrin WF, Würsig B, Thewissen JG (eds.). Encyclopedia of Marine...

whales) have massive heads that can make up 40% of their body mass. Most mysticetes prefer the food-rich colder waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres...

Herpetocetus is a genus of cetotheriid mysticete in the subfamily Herpetocetinae. Considerably smaller than modern baleen whales, Herpetocetus measured...

Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand. Although at times classified as basal mysticetes or basal odontocetes, recent cladistic analyses demonstrate that kekenodontids...

PMID 30804188. Geijer, C. K.; Notarbartolo di Sciara, G.; Panigada, S. (2016). "Mysticete migration revisited: Are Mediterranean fin whales an anomaly?". Mammal...

south-east Australia, containing one species J. hunderi. Unlike modern mysticetes, it possessed large teeth for gripping and shredding prey, and lacked...

mammals and penguins. Although at times classified as a basilosaurid, mysticete, or odontocete, recent work suggests that it represents a phylogenetic...

Mineran civilization left on the planet include the airship fortress Mysticete, mostly known to the Organicans as the "Forest of Thorns", and mechanoids...

taxonomic and evolutionary history of fossil and modern balaenopteroid mysticetes". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 12 (1/2): 99–143. doi:10.1007/s10914-005-6944-3...

Ciuciulea is a genus of cetotheriid mysticete found in middle Miocene marine deposits in Moldova. Ciuciulea is a dwarf cetotheriid 3–4 meters in length...

Ando, Tatsuro (14 April 2015). "Niche Partitioning in Oligocene Toothed Mysticetes (Mysticeti: Aetiocetidae)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 23: 33–41...

Eucetotherium is a genus of cetotheriid mysticete from Miocene (Tortonian) marine deposits in the Russian Caucasus. J. F. Brandt. 1871. Bericht uber den...

disappearance of the hind limbs which took place with the first odontocetes and mysticetes 34 million years ago. The modern dolphin skeleton has two small, rod-shaped...