Sentence examples for extinct whales from inspiring English sources

However, the fact that modern whales have a rudimentary pelvis can only be explained by including the historical particulars the details of the explanation, such as the existence of extinct whales, like Basilosaurus, with leg bones, which paleontologists have found (see Thewissen and Bajpai (2001) for a general outline of whale evolution).

Thewissen et al. [3] argued on the basis of these new data that †Indohyus was the sister taxon of living and extinct whales.

A grouping of living and extinct whales (†Pakicetus, †Ambulocetus, †Rodhocetus, †Artiocetus, †Dorudon, †Basilosaurus, Mysticeti, Physeteridae, Ziphiidae, Pontoporia, Inia, Monodontidae, Delphinidae) has branch support of +3, and the †raoellid †Indohyus is sister group to this clade with a branch support of +2.

And then, in a wind-scoured gulley, Mr. Cabrera spotted an unmistakable glint: a five-inch tooth from a megalodon — the extinct whale-eating giant shark.

The researchers used 3D digitization to capture the entire geometry of the fossils, some of which were hundreds of pounds, and examine the extinct whale's unique anatomy.

Hearing Starfleet's warning, Spock determines that the probe's signal matches the song of extinct humpback whales, and that the object will continue to wreak havoc until its call is answered.

Intent on returning home to Earth to face trial for their perceived crimes, the former crew of the USS Enterprise finds the planet in grave danger from an alien probe attempting to contact now-extinct humpback whales.

Howard Rosenbaum at the Museum of Natural History in New York, for example, has compared the DNA of living examples of the Atlantic right whale, a nearly extinct species of whale that lives off the coast of the northeastern United States, and the DNA of whales that were caught and hunted hundreds of years ago.

Based on a report from an aerial survey the previous week, the boat headed toward an area where two rare species might be found: the elusive sei whale and the almost extinct northern right whale.

According to Russell, "the Atlantic grays appear to have been the first whales rendered extinct by human beings".

"What we observe is that the biting sperm whales became extinct, while the suction feeders survive until the present," Dr. Lambert said.