A male Baleen done up in bright orange fabrics. He's also sporting a stick and a headset with dyed pampas mangrove seed fluffs.
A #Baleen travel/caravan leader!
To lead one of the roaming groups, you need to stay highly visible and keep a cool head.
#speculativebiology
A page of drawings of "Sea monkeys 2.0" They resemble a hybrid of brine shrimp and anomalocaris. Includes descriptor text talking about the shrimp being kept as pets, being used as signs of fertility, and eaten as snacks.
Playing more with the #Baleen world setting, I thought it'd be fun if they'd started keeping some of the "shrimp" of their world as pets. And then it reminded me of sea monkeys, so I decided to roll with it and add in a few other features from other prehistoric critters.
#speculativebiology
#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #riseandreignofthemammals #brusatte #whale #baleen #bluewhale #rightwhale #humpback #evolution #mammals
Moved onto visualising hormone data from a sample of Hope’s #Baleen - indicating that she was pregnant during the last years of her life
"When a Blue Whale swam up to him, He didn't expect to find a lifeguard inside it's baleen bristled maw inviting him inside the spacious mouth"
Commissioned by Felix
#maw #whale #furry #tongue #whalevore #baleen
#fossilfriday : impressions of whale baleen. Found in the Palos Verdes area, Los Angeles County. On display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California.
#naturalhistorymuseumoflosangelescounty #naturalhistorymuseum #losangeles #prehistoriccalifornia #fossil #whale #baleen
Rita succeeded in collecting and analyzing an immense amount of data on the site fidelity and residency of both #baleen and #toothed whales in Madeira – namely, Bryde’s whales, sperm whales and Blainville’s beaked #whales.
Humpback whales spotted yesterday in Puget Sound, west of Picnic Point Park, Edmonds Washington 😃 🐋
#PNW #Whales #Cetaceans #WhaleWatching #Boating #Humpback #WhaleTail #Baleen
Humpback whale rises from the water, mouth open wide, the inside of its upper jaw visible with the edges of light baleen descending from the gum line. Small fish leap from the open mouth and the water around the whale. A Brown pelican flies away just behind the whale’s head.
Close up of two pieces of baleen on a display cart. Top: tan colored baleen from a Gray whale about two feet long. Bottom: Black baleen about four feet long, from a Humpback whale. Both are shaped like a right triangle with the sloping side curving out , then narrowing at the bottom. The slopped side begins to fray about 1/3 of the way down, the individual fibers separating. The other side is smooth and mostly straight.
Dr. Sylvia Earle, a white woman with brown hair, stands inside a white, hard sided dive suite. Dials and tubes can be seen inside, near her head. Two men assist her from outside.
Whale Tales & Glitter Issue 5 is all about Baleen and is out tomorrow. Spotlight: Dr. Sylvia Earle And a Survey!
Photos: 1- Humpback whale feeding 2- Two pieces of baleen 3- Dr. Sylvia Earle in a JIM suit
#WhaleTales&Glitter #Whales #Baleen #Cetaceans
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Shockingly when #Baleen whaling resumed after WWII, #whales became increasingly stressed. 🤔 (on a more serious note, not surprised, but now we can prove it thanks to the Smithsonian's' collection of Baleen spleen samples). www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
IOB
"Rorqual #whales, the lunge feeding baleen whales, are the largest filter feeding animals.
Lunge feeding has been described as the largest #biomechanical event on the planet..."
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
by Gil et al
#paleobiology #baleen #oceanlife
Humpback whales filter-feed! A gulp size is about 5,000 gallons. ... enough to fill a "12-foot by 10-foot swimming pool at a depth of 7-feet" ... Graphic is from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives
#Whales #Baleen...
