Whale-like filter-feeding discovered in prehistoric marine reptile. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 08 / 230808110928.htm. University of Bristol.

Prehistoric Megafish Ate Ocean's Tiniest Critters Before whales, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, giant filter-feeding fish swam the prehistoric seas. By going back and searching through museums ...

Fossil fish were filter feeders A group of prehistoric fish that existed for more than 100 million years fed by filtering tiny organisms from ocean water, just as baleen whales do today ...

“Filter feeding in plesiosaurs, from the material that I know, evolved at the end of the Jurassic and went extinct, and at the end of the Cretaceous and went extinct,” O’Keefe says.

30-million-year-old whale provides insight into how modern whales began filter feeding. An evolutionary link between ancient and modern cetaceans ...

Cambrian fossil is earliest example of large swimming filter-feeder. Nature ... Morrison, J. Prehistoric 'weird shrimps' traded claws for nets. Nature (2014) . https://doi ...

'First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales' by Zi-Chen Fang and Mike Benton et al in BMC Ecology and Evolution. A remarkable ...