A suborder of whales characterized by having teeth rather than baleen plates, including sperm whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
From Latin 'dentis' (tooth) and 'ceti' (whales, plural of 'cete'). Scientific taxonomy term that groups all toothed whales together based on shared dental features.
The classification of whales into denticeti (toothed) versus mysticeti (baleen) was one of the earliest ways scientists organized marine mammals—teeth became a simple but powerful way to sort whale species!
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