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Spent the morning reading about maximum body size in marine tetrapods, and how baleen whales achieve their remarkable size because of awesome feeding efficiency. Sorry folks, blue whale-sized marine reptiles are very unlikely: Shonisaurus et al. are likely as big as they got.

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2020-04-06

Andrew Wyeth - Watch Cap ; Baleen

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2020-02-11

9/ Baleen-class heavy freighter.
Maybe Han Solo's Eravana from the Force Awakens (2015).
The ship inspired by the Nintendo NES 😍

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2019-10-22

Big Boss ran out of animal names sometime after naming someone “Baleen Whale”

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2019-08-20

"Great Mysticete" (Baleen whale), 1809 copper engraved print. Zoological Lectures at the Royal Institution in the Years 1806 and 1807 by George Shaw.

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2019-08-19

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2019-08-12

Mammalodon colliveri is an extinct baleen whale that measured 3 metres long. Its blunt snout may have helped to suck up organisms from the sea floor.

(Credit: Gogosardina, Carl Buell)

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2019-02-02

Janjucetus hunderi is an extinct whale from the Oligocene, 25 million years ago. It lacked a baleen system & instead had sharp teeth for ripping apart prey. At 3.5 metres long, it was about the same size a bottlenose dolphin.

(Credit: Gogosardina)

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2018-09-28

“Jewels For My Baleen” By 2015, miniature painting, watercolor, ink and pastel, framed, 4 5/8" x 3 1/8", archival paper, $300. DM to purchase, on display now at today!

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2018-08-22

Baleen whales are known for their large size, but in the past some were relatively small. Here's the Oligocene baleen whale Fucaia goedertorum, its skull and mandibles are not much larger than the extant Pacific White-Sided Dolphin

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2018-08-04