#Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the #PygmyRightWhale https://phys.org/news/2023-07-whale-debate-rest.html

Convergent #evolution of skim feeding in baleen #whales https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.13047

"#Genomics now shows that #Caperea is a distinct lineage and not related to #RightWhales. It is the sole guardian of a unique piece of evolutionary heritage. It truly is the last survivor of an otherwise lost family that once played a much bigger role"