Saturday 27 August 2011

Why did ancient whales have twisted skulls? [Evolution]

Why did ancient whales have twisted skulls? [Evolution]:
Modern toothed whales have two major physical differences from their baleen brethren (apart from the whole teeth thing): they use echolocation, and they have asymmetrical skulls. It was thought that these toothy whales' twisted bones evolved alongside echolocation, but new research indicates it may go back much further than that, to their 37 million-year-old predecessors. More »








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