{"id":6469,"date":"2018-11-29T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T21:31:06","slug":"33-million-year-old-whale-from-oregon-had-neither-teeth-nor-baleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/33-million-year-old-whale-from-oregon-had-neither-teeth-nor-baleen\/","title":{"rendered":"33-million-year-old whale from Oregon had neither teeth nor baleen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(18)31414-3\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Current Biology<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0November 29, 2018<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-11\/cp-3wf112118.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from Cell Press)<br \/>\nA 33-million-year-old fossil whale from Oregon had neither teeth nor baleen. Representing a surprising intermediate stage between modern filter-feeding whales and their toothed ancestors, Maiabalaena\u00a0was a suction feeder. The findings suggest early whales lost their teeth before the evolutionary origin of comb-like baleen.<br \/>\n<strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong>Carlos Mauricio, National Museum of Natural History, Washington &#8211;\u00a0<a>CPeredo@masonlive.gmu.edu<\/a><a href=\"mailto:CPeredo@masonlive.gmu.edu%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Biology Published\u00a0November 29, 2018 (News release from Cell Press) A 33-million-year-old fossil whale from Oregon had neither teeth nor baleen. Representing a surprising intermediate stage between modern filter-feeding whales and their toothed ancestors, Maiabalaena\u00a0was a suction feeder. The findings suggest early whales lost their teeth before the evolutionary origin of comb-like baleen. Corresponding author: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}