Stretchy nerves are an essential component of the extreme feeding mechanism of rorqual whales

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Vogl, A. W., Lillie, Margo A., Piscitelli, Marina A., Goldbogen, Jeremy A., Pyenson, Nicholas D., Shadwick, Robert E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Rorqual; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/26259; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.007

Rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) are among the largest vertebrates that have ever lived and include blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (Balaenoptera physalus) whales. Rorquals differ from other baleen whales (Mysticeti) in possessing longitudinal furrows or grooves in the ventral skin that extend...