mysticete

Multiple specimens of the Miocene mysticete have been found in this place.

Paleontologists have known this for decades now, pulling one grinning mysticete after another from strata all over the world.

Up to now, there have been two competing hypotheses for how filter feeding evolved among the mysticete whales.

Earliest mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru sheds new light on the origin of baleen whales.

The remains belong to a mysticete whale, an ancestor to the baleen whale, said Scott Armstrong, a scientist with Paleo Solutions, a Los Angeles County-based archaeological consulting service.