Dynamic filtration in baleen whales: Recent discoveries and emerging trends

AJ Werth, J Potvin - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Recent findings have greatly improved our understanding of mysticete oral filtration, and
have upended the traditional view of baleen filtration as a simple process. Flow tank …

The evolution of foraging capacity and gigantism in cetaceans

JA Goldbogen, PT Madsen - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018‏ - journals.biologists.com
The extant diversity and rich fossil record of cetaceans provides an extraordinary
evolutionary context for investigating the relationship between form, function and ecology …

Gigantism precedes filter feeding in baleen whale evolution

RE Fordyce, FG Marx - Current Biology, 2018‏ - cell.com
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are the largest animals on Earth, thanks to their ability to filter
huge volumes of small prey from seawater. Mysticetes appeared during the Late Eocene …

Taking a stab at modelling canine tooth biomechanics in mammalian carnivores with beam theory and finite-element analysis

TI Pollock, O Panagiotopoulou… - Royal Society …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Canine teeth are vital to carnivore feeding ecology, facilitating behaviours related to prey
capture and consumption. Forms vary with specific feeding ecologies; however, the …

Suction causes novel tooth wear in marine mammals, with implications for feeding evolution in baleen whales

FG Marx, DP Hocking, T Park, TI Pollock… - Journal of mammalian …, 2023‏ - Springer
Teeth are the primary tool used by most mammals to capture and process food. Over the
lifetime of an individual, they progressively wear through contact with each other (attrition) …

[HTML][HTML] New specimens and species of the Oligocene toothed baleen whale Coronodon from South Carolina and the origin of Neoceti

RW Boessenecker, BL Beatty, JH Geisler - PeerJ, 2023‏ - peerj.com
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are gigantic filter-feeding cetaceans possessing the unique soft
tissue structure baleen and lacking adult teeth; Oligocene fossils have revealed a wealth of …

[HTML][HTML] Tooth loss precedes the origin of baleen in whales

CM Peredo, ND Pyenson, CD Marshall, MD Uhen - Current Biology, 2018‏ - cell.com
Whales use baleen, a novel integumentary structure, to filter feed; filter feeding itself evolved
at least five times in tetrapod history but demonstrably only once in mammals [1]. Living …

Anatomical, ontogenetic, and genomic homologies guide reconstructions of the teeth-to-baleen transition in mysticete whales

J Gatesy, EG Ekdale, TA Deméré, A Lanzetti… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract The transition in Mysticeti (Cetacea) from capture of individual prey using teeth to
bulk filtering batches of small prey using baleen ranks among the most dramatic …

The killer's toolkit: remarkable adaptations in the canine teeth of mammalian carnivores

TI Pollock, DP Hocking, AR Evans - Zoological Journal of the …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Often the first point of contact between predator and prey, mammalian canine teeth are
essential for killing, dismembering and consuming prey. Yet despite their importance, few …

Mystacodon selenensis, the earliest known toothed mysticete (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru: anatomy, phylogeny, and feeding adaptations

C De Muizon, G Bianucci, M Martínez-Cáceres… - Geodiversitas, 2019‏ - BioOne
ABSTRACT Mystacodon selenensis Lambert, Martínez-Cáceres, Bianucci, Di Celma, Salas-
Gismondi, Steurbaut, Urbina & Muizon, 2017 is a toothed mysticete that represents the …