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Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

baleens  

DEFINITION

  • Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea. It is a feeding structure composed of flexible plates, made of the structural protein keratin, which grow downward from a whale’s upper jaw.

    Created: 7/22/21

    Last modified: 7/22/21

    (en)

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  • Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    whalebones (en)

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