Baleen whales (mysticetes) include the largest animals on the Earth. How they achieved
such gigantic sizes remains debated, with previous research focusing primarily on when …

The Pisco-Ica and Sacaco basins of southern Peru are renowned for their abundance of
exceptionally preserved fossil cetaceans, several of which retain traces of soft tissue and …

Background Balaenopterid mysticetes represent the most successful family-rank group of
this clade. Their evolutionary history is characterized by a rich fossil record but the origin of …

Along the southern African coastal plain, human occupation is documented since the end of
the Early Pleistocene. The archaeological, palaeoenvironemental and ethnographic records …

Background An extensive radiation can be inferred among balaenopterid mysticetes in the
last 10 million years based on a rich fossil record. Many extinct genera and species have …

Marzanoptera tersillae gen. & sp. nov., a new balaenopterid from the Pliocene of the
Piedmont in north-west Italy, is described based on a partial skeleton and compared with …

Archaebalaenoptera eusebioi is a new late Miocene (Tortonian) balaenopterid species from
the Aguada de Lomas locality in the Pisco Formation, Peru. It is dated to 8.85–7.93 Ma and …

The tympanoperiotic complex of a blue whale Balaenoptera musculus is described and
compared to the homologous structures in the other extant and fossil baleen whale species …

Citation for this article: Govender, R. 2018. Extension of the geographic range of Homiphoca
into Northern Cape Province, South Africa, with comments on the possible feeding strategies …

Koeberg is a Zanclean, subsurface locality on the west coast of South Africa, which was
unearthed during the excavations of the Koeberg Power Station foundations. Mysticetes and …