Tag Archives: WHALES
Fossil whales’ teeth shows what ferocious predators they were
The feeding habits of the whale — the world’s biggest animal — have evolved to filter feeding, shows new international research. Ancient whales appear to have been ferocious predators, investigators explain. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
Fossil whales’ teeth shows what ferocious predators they were
The feeding habits of the whale — the world’s biggest animal — have evolved to filter feeding, shows new international research. Ancient whales appear to have been ferocious predators, investigators explain. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & Ruins News — ScienceDaily
On fossil beaked whales, phosphorites and ocean floors
In 2007, the vessel Anita was fishing with bottom gillnets in about 400m-deep waters northwest of the island of Mykines in the Faroe Islands (about 62˚05’N-09˚28’W). One day, fisherman Bjarni Jacobsen from the village of Sumba in the Faroe Islands, … Continue reading
Whales only recently evolved into giants when changing ice, oceans concentrated prey
A team of scientists have traced the evolution of whale size through more than 30 million years of history and found that very large whales appeared along several branches of the family tree about 2 to 3 million years ago. … Continue reading
Baleen whales’ ancestors were toothy suction feeders
Modern whales’ ancestors probably hunted and chased down prey, but somehow, those fish-eating hunters evolved into filter-feeding leviathans. An analysis of a 36.4-million-year-old whale fossil suggests that before baleen whales lost their teeth, they were suction feeders that most likely … Continue reading
Sharks of Whale Valley (or should that be whales of Shark Valley?)
Leaving behind the noise and pollution of Cairo, the drive across the monotonous buff desert comes almost as a relief. After passing through the lush farmlands of the Fayum Oasis and back out onto the desert plains, the first sign … Continue reading
Massive sea lizards once hunted dinosaur whales in Antarctica
Massive sea lizards once hunted dinosaur whales in Antarctica Antarctica was once home to a 10-metre long sea monster that hunted the reptilian equivalent of whales at the end of the dinosaur age, scientists have discovered. The mosasaur, a huge … Continue reading
Whales in the desert?
A paleontologist encases a whale fossil In Cerro Colorado, located in the Ica Desert of Peru, sedimentary sequences dating back nine million years have been found to host the fossil skeletons of hundreds of marine vertebrates. In 2008, remains of … Continue reading