ArticleBiology letters2019
Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought.
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- A High-Quality Blue Whale Genome, Segmental Duplications, and Historical Demography.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- In search of the origin of crown Mysticeti.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2024Review
- Giant baleen whales emerged from a cold southern cradle.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte.PloS one · 2021Article
- Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- A right whale (Mysticeti, Balaenidae) from the Pleistocene of Taiwan.Zoological letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are major ecosystem engineers, thanks to their enormous size and bulk filter feeding strategy. Their signature gigantism is thought to be a relatively recent phenomenon, resulting from a Plio-Pleistocene mode shift in their body size evolution. Here, we report the largest whale fossil ever described: an Early Pleistocene (1.5-1.25 Ma) blue whale from Italy with an estimated body length of up to 26 m. Macroevolutionary modelling taking into account this specimen, as well as additional material from the Miocene of Peru, reveals that the proposed mode shift occurred either somewhat earlier, or perhaps not at all. Large-sized mysticetes comparable to most extant species have existed since at least the Late Miocene, suggesting a long-term impact on global marine ecosystems.
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