Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

2018/05/01 by R. Ewan Fordyce, Felix G. Marx · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Baleen #Biology #Cetacea #Ecology #Marine and coastal plant biology #Marine animal studies overview #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Right whale #Scopus #Whale #Zoology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.027

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