Word: plankton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured and killed in 1907. Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History placed on exhibition her remains, whalebone and all-largest skeleton of the species ever...