(Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were not ...

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A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already using whale-like filter feeding 250 million years ago. A remarkable new fossil from China reveals ...

The Hupehsuchus lived 250 million years ago, but recent findings show that it had similar feeding strategies to modern-day whales. Elizabeth Gamillo is a staff writer for Discover and Astronomy. She ...

“The snout of Hupehsuchus is highly convergent with modern baleen whales,” the study concludes. Yet does that mean that whales are somehow descended from the noble Hupehsuchus? Not exactly. “There is ...

A large display case holds the fossil of a plesiosaur at the Natural History Museum in London. John Harper/Corbis If you’ve ever flipped through a book of prehistoric creatures or ambled through a ...