Article title: The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): A novel model for studying healthy arterial aging Authors: Yara Bernaldo de Quirós, Sophia A. Mahoney, Nicholas S. VanDongen, Nathan T. Greenberg, Ravinandan Venkatasubramanian, Pedro Saavedra, Gregory Bossart, Vienna E. Brunt, Zachary S. Clayton, Antonio…
Tag: Cetaceans
Study shows a whale of a difference between songs of birds and humpbacks
These findings challenge the results of past studies that vocal variations in humpback whale songs provide information about a singer’s reproductive fitness.
Now how did that get up there?
New research is shedding light on how the nasal passage in dolphins and whales shifts during embryonic development, from emerging at the tip of the snout to emerging at the top of the head as a blowhole. The findings are an integrative model for this developmental transition for cetaceans.