Scientists have found a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that had neither teeth nor baleen. Based on its relationship to other whales, the findings suggest that whales lost teeth first, and only developed baleen later.

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Scientists have found a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that had neither teeth nor baleen. Based on its relationship to other whales, the findings suggest that whales lost teeth first, and only developed baleen later.