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A Newly Discovered Colossal Prehistoric Whale Might Be The Heaviest Animal Ever
When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...
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The Largest Whale In The World is Massive!
The biggest cetacean in the world is the blue whale, whose scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus. Despite some people’s ...
Into the blue: How baleen whales have adapted over the past 50 million years
The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to ...
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The blue whale: a cetacean relation
The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...
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The Evolutionary Shaping of Modern Whales
The skull of a vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the world’s smallest cetacean, is pretty manageable, as it’s around the size of a melon. But the skull of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is more on the ...
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Cetacean strandings: 104 years of collecting whales
The early collection of material allowed researchers to get a better idea of the anatomy, biology and ecology of everything - from blue whales to harbour porpoises, and everything in between.' Since ...