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• The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?' Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• Cetacean, for, although the sperm whale has a gullet sufficiently large to admit the body of a man, yet, it can hardly be the fish intended, as the natural food of Cetaceans consists of small animals, such as medusae and crustacea. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• In the previous post I discussed the basic anatomy and behaviour involved in lunge-feeding, a style of predation practiced by rorquals, the biggest, fastest and most dynamic of baleen-bearing cetaceans. Archive 2006-10-01
• It has a nice figure of artiodactyl phylogeny, including cetaceans. Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience - The Panda's Thumb
• People in coastal communities are often surprised to learn just how rich our waters are in terms of providing habitat for a diversity of cetacean species.
• The work of this international group, published in the latest issue of Geologica Acta, is the first taphonomic (fossilisation process) study done on cetacean remains combined with other paleontological disciplines such as ichnology (the study of trace fossils). PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• Chas watches the storm clouds crawl downslope toward his cetacean throne, his face impassive. THE SAVAGE GIRL
• It has been independently lost or reduced in several amniote lineages, however, including crocodilians, birds, tuataras, iguanian lizards, cetaceans, and catarrhine primates.
• All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths.
• Odontocete cetaceans rely upon echolocation to sense the environment and detect prey.