{"id":85366,"date":"2018-12-01T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fossil-named-after-burke-museum-curator-tells-whale-of-a-tale"},"modified":"2018-12-01T17:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T01:22:23","slug":"fossil-named-after-burke-museum-curator-tells-whale-of-a-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fossil-named-after-burke-museum-curator-tells-whale-of-a-tale","title":{"rendered":"Fossil named after Burke Museum curator tells whale of a tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fossil-named-after-burke-museum-curator-tells-whale-of-a-tale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A whale that lived 33 million years ago when present-day Oregon was part of the ocean floor has been newly named after a curator at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>And Elizabeth Nesbitt\u2019s whale isn\u2019t your typical cetacean: An analysis of the fossil, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(18)31414-3#%20\" target=\"_blank\">published in the Nov. 29 issue of Current Biology<\/a>, suggests that Maiabalaena nesbittae bridged a gap between species of whales that had teeth and species that have a different mouth-feeding mechanism known as baleen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we can now pin down the origin of filter-feeding, which is one of the major innovations in whale history,\u201d study co-author Nicholas Pyenson, the National Museum of Natural History\u2019s curator of fossil marine mammals and an affiliate curator at the Burke Museum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burkemuseum.org\/press\/newly-described-fossil-whale-named-after-burke-curator?utm_medium=meltwater&utm_source=burke-pr&utm_campaign=nesbitt-whale\" target=\"_blank\">said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/local\/fossil-named-after-burke-museum-curator-tells-whale-of-a-tale\/281-619550483\">https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/local\/fossil-named-after-...;619550483<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whale that lived 33 million years ago when present-day Oregon was part of the ocean floor has been newly named after a curator at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. And Elizabeth Nesbitt\u2019s whale isn\u2019t your typical cetacean: An analysis of the fossil, published in the Nov. 29 issue of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}