A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea.” Part memoir, part nature writing and part literary criticism, the book takes readers around ...
The type specimen of Megalodelphis magnidens Kellogg, 1944, from the Late Tertiary of Florida, is not a long-beaked dolphin of the mammalian order Cetacea as it was originally described. The presence ...
Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Vol. 61, No. 2, Número especial XI Congreso Nacional de Paleontología, Juriquilla 2009 (2009), pp. 245-265 (21 pages) AbstractThe Delphinidae is the most ...
Whales are the biggest animal on the planet, dolphins are comparably smaller, but are they all one “big” happy family? They all belong to the Order Cetacea which is the group of sea mammals that ...
This work contains a modicum of information based on the authors own observations, which in some degree redeems it from being merely an indescriminate compilation. Cetacea pp. 1-204; 1. Balaena ...
Modern members of the mammalian order Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are obligate aquatic swimmers that are highly distinctive in morphology, lacking hair and hind limbs, and having flippers ...
The scientific order, called Cetacea, includes dolphins, whales and porpoises. The dolphin family Delphinidae has 36 species. Some members of the dolphin family have the word whale in their common ...
ONE is so much accustomed to encounter strange assertions in regard to zoology in the non-scientific Press that one takes little notice of them; but when one reads under the head of “Science,” as may ...