“The snout of Hupehsuchus is highly convergent with modern baleen whales,” the study concludes. Yet does that mean that whales are somehow descended from the noble Hupehsuchus? Not exactly. “There is ...

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Modern flamingoes employ filter feeding and their feces are, as a result, rich in remains of microscopically-small aquatic prey. Very similar contents are described from more than 150 million year old ...

MELBOURNE, Nov. 30 (UPI) --Baleen whales are named for the long hair-like strands that hang from their mouth and filter food from the ocean. But baleen whales didn't always filter their food; their ...

Flamingoes are fairly large birds with a curvy neck and long legs, and they’re famous for their pink color and how they stand on one leg. There are five different species of flamingo, one of which is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Filter-feeding has been studied in specimens of Bithynia tentaculata from a population in Oneida Lake, New York. Chlorella vulgaris cultures ...

A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already using whale-like filter feeding 250 million years ago. A remarkable new fossil from China reveals ...

Some ancient ancestors of giant baleen whales did not filter their food through plates of hair-like bristles like their modern kin. Neither did they have teeth. Instead, they may have used powerful ...

A large display case holds the fossil of a plesiosaur at the Natural History Museum in London. John Harper/Corbis If you’ve ever flipped through a book of prehistoric creatures or ambled through a ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 56, No. 6 (December 2016), pp. 1271-1284 (14 pages) The origin of baleen and filter feeding in mysticete cetaceans occurred sometime between approximately 34 ...

Whale sharks are the largest known extant fish species. Their name “whale shark” comes from its size, being as large as some species of whales and also to its being a filter feeder like baleen whales.

It definitely did not walk like a duck, and it probably did not quack like one, but a bird-like Mongolian dinosaur called Gallimimus probably ate like a duck, filtering water through a sieve-like ...