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Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales
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From Big Fish to Big Whales: Whales are the largest animals today, and many feed on the abundant plankton, particularly diatoms, in the oceans. Whales arose and diversified in the Cenozoic, about 30 to 40 million years ago (see the Perspective by Cavin ). Marx and Uhen (p. 993 ) show that their diversity parallels the diversity of diatoms and changes in ocean temperature. Whether there were large predators of plankton before whales has been enigmatic, because the fossil record during the Mesozoic (245 to 65 million years ago) is sparse. Friedman et al. (p. 990 ) now show that a group of large fish filled this role for nearly 100 million years in the Mesozoic. Although not as large as whales, these globally distributed fish were still several meters long. Their extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary 65.5 million years ago may have cleared the seas for the evolution of whales.
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- Authors
- Marx, F. G., & Uhen, M. D.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-02-19
- Volume
- 327
- Issue
- 5968
- Pages
- 993-996
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2057108646
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- 221
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 13.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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