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using their flipper-shaped
forelimbs to maneuver.
While the
majority of
cetaceans live in
marine environments, a
small number reside solely in brackish...
-
Cetacean stranding,
commonly known as beaching, is a
phenomenon in
which whales and
dolphins strand themselves on land,
usually on a beach.
Beached whales...
-
Cetacean intelligence is the
overall intelligence and
derived cognitive ability of
aquatic mammals belonging in the
infraorder Cetacea (
cetaceans), including...
- are
sometimes referred to as 'blackfish', a term also used for
other cetaceans. Historically, 'grampus' was
another name for the species,
though is is...
- The
evolution of
cetaceans is
thought to have
begun in the
Indian subcontinent from even-toed
ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50
million years ago (mya) and...
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Sponges or sea
sponges are
primarily marine invertebrates of the
metazoan phylum Porifera (/pəˈrɪfərəˌ pɔː-/ pər-IF-ər-ə, por-;
meaning 'pore bearer')...
- they
correspond to
large members of the
infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all
cetaceans apart from
dolphins and porpoises.
Dolphins and
porpoises may be considered...
-
diverged from each
other in the
Eocene some 50
million years ago (mya).
Cetaceans are
descended from land-dwelling
hoofed mammals, and the now
extinct archaeocetes...
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Cetacean bycatch (or
cetacean by-catch) is the
accidental capture of non-target
cetaceans such as dolphins, porpoises, and
whales by
commercial fisheries...
-
right whale).
There are
currently 16
species of
baleen whales.
While cetaceans were
historically thought to have
descended from mesonychians, molecular...
