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- who: Carlos Mauricio Peredo from the DepartmentUniversity of have published the research work: Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports of 28/06/2022
SUMMARY
The authors observed the palates of 16 living and fossil cetaceans and identified lateral palatal foramina in all of them, including non-filter-feeding odontocetes and stem cetaceans. To test the homology of the lateral palatal foramina across the cetacean phylogeny, the authors examined the internal pathways associated with these foramina in a subset of these specimens. In . . .
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