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    The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...
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    Cetacea (redirect from Anatomy of cetaceans)
    evidence places cetaceans as nested within even-toed ungulates, most closely related to hippopotamus within the clade Whippomorpha. Cetaceans have been extensively...
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    List of cetacean genera List of extinct cetaceans List of individual cetaceans Evolution of cetaceans Archaeoceti List of whale vocalizations List of marine...
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    Pakicetus (category Prehistoric cetacean genera)
    other cetaceans, are artiodactyls. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pakicetus. Cetaceans portal Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans Bajpai...
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    Cetacean intelligence is the overall intelligence and derived cognitive ability of aquatic mammals belonging in the infraorder Cetacea (cetaceans), including...
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    perissodactyls, one lineage of artiodactyls began to venture out into the seas. The traditional theory of cetacean evolution was that cetaceans were related to the...
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    Dorudon (category Prehistoric cetacean genera)
    shown by unhealed bite marks on the skulls of some juvenile Dorudon. Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans Andrews 1906, p. 255 Dorudon in the Paleobiology...
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    on the dorsal fins of large cetaceans to identify individuals in the field. The bony or cartilaginous bones that support the base of the dorsal fin in...
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    longer than in modern cetaceans (but still shorter than in some extinct cetaceans with undulating spines.) Motion in the spine of pakicetids was further...
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    Indohyus (category Eocene mammals of Asia)
    new understanding of the evolution of cetaceans. Bajpai, S; Thewissen, JG; Sahni, A (November 2009). "The origin and early evolution of whales: macroevolution...
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    Cetotherium (category Miocene cetaceans)
    to these whales.[citation needed] Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans "Classification of the family Cetotheriidae". Fossilwork. Retrieved 17 December...
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    cetaceans is called the "dorsal fin" and the large cetacean tails are referred to primarily as flukes but occasionally as "caudal fins"; neither of these...
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    Rodhocetus (category Prehistoric cetacean genera)
    Rodhocetus. Wikispecies has information related to Rodhocetus. Evolution of cetaceans Gingerich et al. 1994, p. 844 Rhodocetus in the Paleobiology Database...
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    Evolution of cetaceans Berta, Annalisa (2012). Return to the Sea : The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals. Berkeley, CA: University of California...
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  • mammals, the even-toed ungulates. The earliest cetaceans were still hoofed mammals. These early cetaceans became gradually better adapted for swimming than...
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    adaptive radiation of mammal species Evolution of cetaceans Evolution of horses Evolution of primates – Origin and diversification of primates through geologic...
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    others opt to include cetaceans within the existing name of Artiodactyla. Some researchers use "even-toed ungulates" to exclude cetaceans and only include...
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    Ambulocetus (category Prehistoric cetacean genera)
    Ambulocetus is among the best-studied of Eocene cetaceans, and serves as an instrumental find in the study of cetacean evolution and their transition from land...
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    Maiacetus (category Prehistoric cetacean genera)
    12% larger than the one interpreted as female. Cetaceans portal Paleontology portal Evolution of cetaceans Gingerich PD, Ul-Haq M, von Koenigswald W, Sanders...
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    fairly similar to modern cetaceans in overall body form and function. Some genera tend to show signs of convergent evolution with mosasaurs by having...
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    Ambulocetidae is a family of early cetaceans from Pakistan. The genus Ambulocetus, after which the family is named, is by far the most complete and well-known...
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    Whale (redirect from Blackfish (cetaceans))
    which consists of even-toed ungulates. Their closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopotamuses, from which they and other cetaceans diverged about...
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    or worked on four missing links in the evolution of cetaceans. In addition, he worked on the following. Cetacean evolutionary missing links researched...
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    Cetology (redirect from Cetacean research)
    gaining popularity of dolphin shows in marine parks. Studying cetaceans presents numerous challenges. Cetaceans only spend 10% of their time on the surface...
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    of these mammals started returning to the sea, including the cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Recent DNA analysis suggests that cetaceans evolved...
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    Fin (redirect from Evolution of fins)
    completing a circle. These are the cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Recent DNA analysis suggests that cetaceans evolved from within the even-toed...
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    Rayanistes Bebej, Zalmout, El-Aziz, Antar, and Gingerich, 2016 Cetaceans portal Evolution of cetaceans "Remingtonocetidae". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-09-01...
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    Basilosaurus (category Fossil cetaceans misidentified as reptiles)
    one of the first fully aquatic cetaceans (sometimes referred to as the pelagiceti). Basilosaurus, unlike modern cetaceans, had various types of teeth–such...
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    Kutchicetus (category Prehistoric cetacean genera)
    Ambulocetus. This mode of locomotion represents a transitional stage in whale evolution. Cetaceans portal Evolution of cetaceans Kutchicetus in the Paleobiology...
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    Hall, Brian K. (2008-09-15). Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226313405. Maie, Takashi;...
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