The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

Researchers have identified a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that may represent the missing link ... The whale’s fossilized jaw has neither teeth nor evidence of baleen, and its age places it ...

Its name translates to “big tooth,” which is a fitting description ... with a particular penchant for baleen whales. Fossil evidence indicates that it was a highly adaptable predator, capable ...

The fossil specimens, at 17 to 19 million years old ... tell the difference between a baleen whale and another cetacean by checking if it has teeth. Baleen whales, such as gray whales, blue whales, ..

A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

“For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth.” “But baleen whales do grow teeth in the womb. Those teeth will be re ...

A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History after its discovery on the Gaviota ...