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How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

We explore the origin of the Mystacodon, what we know today as baleen whales.

08/16/2022

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Eons

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

Season 4 Episode 39 | 9m 49sVideo has Closed Captions

We explore the origin of the Mystacodon, what we know today as baleen whales.

Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, where was its baleen? Where did baleen come from? And how did it live without it?

08/16/2022

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Eons

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

Season 4 Episode 39 | 9m 49sVideo has Closed Captions

Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, where was its baleen? Where did baleen come from? And how did it live without it?

08/16/2022

FromDigital Studios

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Welcome to Eons!

Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.

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