8/7/2016
BEACON TRANSCRIPT – The scientific community is amazed after the discovery of dolphin fossils in a drainage ditch in South Carolina. The fossils ...
8/5/2016
The extant toothed whales listen to echoes of their calls for navigation purposes and hunting for prey. This goes well with high frequency hearing.
A South Carolina study has unveiled that toothed whales' ability to hear high frequencies has emerged much earlier than what was considered before.
8/4/2016
Whales have enjoyed the benefits of ultrasonic hearing for more than 24 million years, according to new analysis of an ancient fossilised whale's ear.
From playful dolphins to huge sperm whales, all modern toothed whales rely on echoes of their own calls to navigate the ocean and hunt underwater.
Scientists on Thursday described fossils of a newly identified dolphin, called Echovenator sandersi, that thrived in shallow, warm seas about 27 million ...
Scientists have discovered the fossilized skull of a 24- to 27 million-year-old ancient whale, proving that echolocation evolved very early on among ...
This newly identified fossil whale species could hear frequencies far above the range of human hearing, new research published in the August 4 ...
Fossils unearthed in a South Carolina drainage ditch are providing insight into the development of ultrasonic hearing in prehistoric whales, a trait ...
A newly-named fossil whale species had superior high-frequency hearing ability, helped in part by the unique shape of inner ear features that have ...
An artist's rendering of an ancient species of toothed whale that scientists think had ultrasonic hearing. Credit A. Gennari. In a newly-identified ancient ...