Sentences with phrase «early mysticetes»
Lambert and his colleagues will be looking for more ancient whales to further flesh out the story of early mysticetes.
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Like other early mysticetes, this one still had teeth — its name means «toothed mysticete.»
«Among marine mammals, when a slow - swimming animal is living close to the sea floor, generally the bone is much more compact, and this is something we want to test with these early mysticetes.»
«For example, this early mysticete retains teeth, and from what we observed of its skull, we think that it displays an early specialization for suction feeding and maybe for bottom feeding.»
Earliest mysticete from the late Eocene of Peru sheds new light on the origin of baleen whales.
Not exact matches
«The skull of this species indicates that it split off very early in mysticete whale evolution, and our analyses confirm that evolutionary position,» Geisler says.