How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked | Eons

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Published October 15, 2026 at 5:00 AM CDT

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Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, where was its baleen? Where did baleen come from? And how did it live without it?