# toothless mammal with keratin scales

Wildlife Trafficking: Why battling this illicit trade is crucial » Aug 22, 2023… Wildlife trade is regulated by the United Nations' Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), … Ice.gov

The topography of diet: Orientation patch count predicts diet in turtles » Use of quantitative morphological methods in biology has increased with the availability of 3D digital data. Rotated orientation patch count (OPCr) leverages such data to quantify the complexity of a… Anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter-feeding in baleen whales » Abstract. Extant baleen whales (Mysticeti) have a deciduous foetal dentition, but are edentulous at birth. Fossils reveal that the earliest mysticetes possessed Dx.doi.org

Prenatal developmental sequence of the skull of minke whales and its implications for the evolution of mysticetes and the teeth‐to‐baleen transition » Baleen whales (Mysticeti) have an extraordinary fossil record documenting the transition from toothed raptorial taxa to modern species that bear baleen plates, keratinous bristles employed in filter-… Onlinelibrary.wiley.com