Specialization for underwater hearing by the tympanic middle ear of the turtle
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 11:03
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A group of biologists from Denmark and the US led by Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark, and Catherine Carr, University of Maryland, have shown that the turtle ear is specialized for underwater hearing.
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