Tag Archive for 'Suction feeding'

Morphology of the fish-feeding trace fossils: (A) slab containing fish-feeding trails (QUER1A, B, and H) and pits (QUER1C, D, E, and G); (B) false-color height map of the feeding trail QUER1B and the feeding pit QUER1C; (C) false-color height map of the feeding pit QUER1G; (D) paleogeographical location of the studied fossil sites. Image credit: Baucon et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2306164120.

130-Million-Year-Old Trace Fossils Reveal Earliest Evidence of Deep-Sea Vertebrates

Sep 19, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found 130-million-year-old trace fossils from abyssal plain turbidites of the ancient Tethys Ocean. Combined with nannofossil dating,...

Extant Chimaera monstrosa. Image credit: MAREANO / Havforskingsinstituttet / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Carboniferous-Period Chimaeras Were Suction Feeders, New Study Suggests

Jan 17, 2023 by News Staff

Suction is an especially effective way of feeding underwater, and adaptations to enhance it have evolved numerous times in jawed vertebrates. The only...

Life reconstruction of Sahonachelys mailakavava preying upon young larvae of the giant frog Beelzebufo ampinga using specialized suction feeding. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin.

Cretaceous Turtle from Madagascar Had Adaptations for Suction Feeding

May 5, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Sahonachelys mailakavava, a newly-identified species of pelomedusoid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, had an unusually flattened skull, a...

A rendering of Inermorostrum xenops. Image credit: Robert Boessenecker.

Toothless Dwarf Dolphin Provides Insights into Cetacean Evolution

Aug 24, 2017 by News Staff

A new species of extinct dwarf dolphin that lived about 30 million years ago (Oligocene epoch) and possessed adaptations for suction feeding has been identified...