Sentences with phrase «mysticetes include»
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The specimen, which researchers unearthed in the Pisco Basin in southern Peru, is the oldest known member of the mysticete group, which includes the blue whale, the humpback whale, and the right whale.
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Thus, when the filter - feeding mysticetes (which includes the blue whale) began scooping krill from the water, they essentially excluded other lineages from this niche.
The fossil is the oldest known mysticete, a group that includes baleen whales, such as humpbacks, researchers report in the May 22 Current Biology.