Sentences with phrase «early whales»

About a dozen genera of early whales have been lumped together in a group called the Archaeocetes, because no one knows enough about them to classify them further.
Suction feeding likely enabled early whales to move from a tooth - based feeding style to filter - feeding, by allowing them to capture smaller prey items than teeth alone could handle,» Dr Marx says.
The adaptations resemble those of early whales and today's hippopotamus, and make Spinosaurus the only dinosaur known to swim, the researchers say.
Some notable examples are the transitions from reptile to mammal, from land animal to early whale, and from early ape to human
Unlike today's whales that specialize in making — and hearing — very high - or low - pitched sounds, early whales» ears probably picked up noises somewhere in the middle, paleontologists Mickaël Mourlam and Maeva Orliac report June 8 in Current Biology.
In the earliest whales, the joints in the front flippers — essentially elbows — could still be flexed, a relic of when those flippers were legs.
The earliest whales were predators with sharp teeth — a legacy carried on by today's orcas, dolphins and other toothed whales.
Thus, if whales descended from artiodactyls and not mesonychians, the earliest whales should exhibit artiodactyl - like ankles.
Rightly described as Australia's first «industry» see how the early whale hunters battled with giant Sharks to land their huge catches.
Much of the accommodation available today dates back to those early whaling days.
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