Ancient fossil may solve baleen whale mystery

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 12:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The origins of the largest animals in the world, the baleen whales, might be rooted in the mud, which they potentially sucked up like vacuum cleaners, analysis of a bizarre extinct dwarf whale now suggests. Whale - Baleen whale - Extinction - Fossil - Animal

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