CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Some recently discovered fossils are helping College of Charleston research associate and adjunct instructor Robert Boessenecker answer questions surrounding the ...

Many whales feed by filling their mouths with water, then straining organisms out of that water as they expel it, using fibrous plates in their mouth called baleen. Now, scientists claim to have ...

Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths Newly described fossil whale in museum collections reveals a surprising intermediate step in their evolution ...

CT scans of a 25 million year-old fossil skull show the Aetiocetus weltoni had both teeth and baleen, unlike modern whales. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news ...

A 36-million-year-old fossil skeleton is revealing a critical moment in the history of baleen whales: what happened when the ancestors of these modern-day filter feeders first began to distinguish ...

Before baleen whales developed their iconic bristled filter-feeding structures, they relied on their pointy teeth and a suctioning method to nab and gulp down prey, a new study finds .

Based upon anatomical, fossil, developmental, and genetic evidence scientists know that baleen whales (technically called mysticetes) evolved from ancestors with teeth, especially since some ...

Modern baleen whales like fin whales have teeth only as embryos; the teeth are reabsorbed long before birth, she added. All modern whales evolved from a single type of land mammal about 55 million ...

The whale – an undetermined species of baleen whale, or mysticete – did not survive the shark bite. This is evident from a lack of re-growth around the tooth.

The fossil named after Burke Museum curator Elizabeth Nesbitt isn't your typical whale: It appears to mark a transitional step between toothed whales and baleen whales.

BOSTON — Fossils uncovered during construction of a roadway in Southern California have revealed four new species of ancient whales, according to research presented here at the annual meeting of ...

CT scans of a 25 million year-old fossil skull show the Aetiocetus weltoni had both teeth and baleen, unlike modern whales.