Fossil brains provide evidence of underwater feeding in early seals
Abstract Pinnipeds (seals and related species) use their whiskers to explore their environment and locate their prey. Today they live mostly in marine habitats and are adapted for a highly specialised amphibious lifestyle with their flippers for locomotion and a hydrodynamically streamlined body. Th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-08-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05135-z |