Ancient 36-million-year-old fossil helps track down how baleen whales lost their teeth
Baleen whales, also known as mysticetes, are the largest animals in the world. There are 12 baleen whale species divided into 4 families, among them the famous humpback and blue whales. Some of the defining features of mysticetes, beyond their husky size, are the paired blowholes and the long plates of baleen which hang in a…
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