Ancient whale species sheds new light on its modern relatives
Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Beluga whales and narwhals live solely in the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-arctic. Smithsonian scientists, however, found that this may not have always been the case. They recently described a new species of toothed whale and close relative to today's belugas and narwhals that lived some 3-4 million years ago during the Pliocene in warm water regions.
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