Sentences with phrase «of mysticete»

In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.

The teeth of the newly discovered species of mysticete, called Coronodon havensteini, lend support to the latter view.

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.

One example is the Western Atlantic Passive Acoustics analysis of mysticetes, or baleen whales, (WAPAW).

Not exact matches

Mystacodon bolsters that argument by displaying features of both basilosaurids and mysticetes.

Modern mysticetes have keratin fibers — called baleen — in place of teeth that allow them to trap and feed on tiny marine animals such as shrimp.

«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.»

Based on the age of nearby rocks, the scientists estimate that the Arktocara fossil comes from the late Oligocene epoch, around the time ancient whales diversified into two groups — baleen whales (mysticetes) and toothed whales (odontocetes).

«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.

Earliest mysticete from the late Eocene of Peru sheds new light on the origin of baleen whales.

But at some point during whale history, the ancestors of modern mysticetes replaced teeth with baleen, fibrous plates that filter out small bits of food from seawater like a giant sieve.

Lambert and his colleagues will be looking for more ancient whales to further flesh out the story of early mysticetes.

But an astounding fossil discovery is offering scientists a glimpse into the distant, ferocious past of today's mild - mannered mysticetes.

SWFSC scientists are also using fisheries acoustic technologies to measure the distribution and density of prey being exploited by foraging mysticete whales involved in behavioral studies.

The baleen whales (or mysticetes) are the other group of cetaceans.