Parallel evolutionary trajectories underlie the origin of giant suspension-feeding whales and bony fishes.
Giant suspension feeders such as mysticete whales, basking and whale sharks, and the extinct (indicated by '†') †pachycormiform teleosts are conspicuous members of modern and fossil marine vertebrate faunas. Whether convergent anatomical features common to these clades arose along similar...
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2012
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