#cetacea — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cetacea, aggregated by home.social.
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#PygmyBlueWhale beaches & dies off #NT coast in first sighting for #GulfOfCarpentaria
The #whale has died after becoming #stranded off the coast of #GrooteEylandt in the #NorthernTerritory on Friday.
Researchers believe it is the first time a pygmy blue whale has ever been sighted in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Fantastic skeleton of a Guiana dolphin at the Aquarium-Museum of Liège.
It was originally described by Van Beneden as the type specimen of Sotalia brasiliensis in the 19th century, which is now considered to be a synonym of Sotalia guianensis.
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Werth, A.J. & Crompton, A.W. (2023) Cetacean tongue mobility and function: A comparative review. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1– 31. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13876
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#NewPaper #Paleontology #Cetacea
Alexander J. Werth and Brian L. Beatty (2023)
Osteological correlates of evolutionary transitions in cetacean feeding and related oropharyngeal functions
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1179804
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1179804
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1179804/full -
"CO2: It's only a trace gas." Positively fractal effects, in reality. Details, details. There are many details.
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On the 23nd day of #Crustmas my true love gave to me the whale barnacle, Coronula diadema (Linnaeus, 1767). These little crustaceans are considered parasites on whales. Normal, everyday barnacles live their lives attached to a rock or shell on the sea bottom. Not so for C. diadema. . .
#arthropoda #crustacea #cirripedia #cetacea #parasite
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#Conservation #genetics in the most endangered sea #mammal species: purge of deleterious #mutation in population size of fewer than 20. #science #biology #cetacea #porpoise
📄 Gross (2021) Cetaceans balancing on the brink. Current Biology 31:R215–R218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.036
