Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: a Twisted Tale
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
Skewed skulls may have helped early whales discriminate the direction of sounds in water and are not solely, as previously thought, a later adaptation related to echolocation. University of Michigan researchers report the finding in a paper to be published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of Aug. 22.