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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Main Authors: George A. Lyras, Lars Werdelin, Bartholomeus G. M. van der Geer, Alexandra A. E. van der Geer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05135-z