# toothless mammal with keratin scales

The lip postDr. Scott Hartman's Skeletal Drawing.com » Well here we go. If you follow me on social media you’ve seen this teased, but I’m putting lips on all my non-beaked non-avian theropod skeletal reconstructions. So much for burying the lede, eh? Ah, but some of you may be wondering why I think they had lips? And what anatomical features I’m Skeletaldrawing.com

Poaching is sending the shy, elusive pangolin to its doom » The small animals, whose scales are coveted for use in Chinese medicine, are now among the world’s most trafficked mammals. Nationalgeographic.com

Frozen Mammals – Page 4 – What's In John's Freezer? » Feb 11, 2014… The Bag-o-Cats: x-ray CT slice showing whole specimens of a black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), juvenile cheetah, and juvenile snow leopard. I … Whatsinjohnsfreezer.com

Prehistoric Whale Jaw Bone Sheds Light on the Evolution of Baleen » Hidden in a museums’ collections for years, a fossil provides a link between past and present feeding mechanisms Smithsonianmag.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

A review and reappraisal of the specific gravities of present and past multicellular organisms, with an emphasis on tetrapods » The density, or specific gravity (SG), of organisms has numerous important implications for their form, function, ecology, and other facets of beings living and dead, and it is especially necessary t… Anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com