The Ecological Rise of Whales Chronicled by the Fossil Record

2017/06/01 by Nicholas D. Pyenson · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Climate change #Context (archaeology) #Ecology #Evolutionary ecology #Foraging #Human echolocation #Macroevolution #Marine and coastal plant biology #Marine animal studies overview #Paleontology #Phylogenetics #Predation #Trophic level

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.001

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• Baleen whale [wikipedia]