Researcher finds missing link between ancient toothed whales and modern baleen whales

Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 08:01 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Erich Fitzgerald, an Australian paleontologist, believes he has found the missing link between ancient toothed whales that caught and ate fish and modern baleen whales that eat by sucking in huge volumes of water and then filter out the krill and shrimp in it.

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