Early evolution of whales: A century of research in Egypt
Living whales are fully aquatic and belong to two suborders of Cetacea: Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales). Both of these modern suborders appeared when Earth changed from a ‘greenhouse ’ earth to an ‘icehouse ’ earth at in about the beginning of the Oligocene epoch
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.579.4993 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gingeric/PDFfiles/PDG471_WhalesinEgypt.pdf |
| Summary: | Living whales are fully aquatic and belong to two suborders of Cetacea: Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales). Both of these modern suborders appeared when Earth changed from a ‘greenhouse ’ earth to an ‘icehouse ’ earth at in about the beginning of the Oligocene epoch |
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