Search results
May 6, 2021 · Even though all seals and sea lions are descended from a common ancestor, they use two radically different modes of propulsion: true seals (phocids) swim with their feet; fur seals and sea lions...
- Sea Lions
New research combines cutting-edge engineering with animal...
- Felix Georg Marx
Felix Georg Marx’s profile on The Conversation. I am a...
- David Hocking
David is the Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology and...
- Marine Mammals
But wild grey seals can do it, to warn off competitors and...
- Sea Lions
Mar 20, 2024 · Up until recently, experts entertained the possibility that today’s array of seals, sea lions and walruses originated from two different ancestral lineages, says Canadian Museum of Nature...
- Riley Black
The pinniped’s ancestors were likely drawn to the ocean due to its abundance of food and over time they evolved to life in the water. Pinnipeds evolved from the ancestors of the musteloids which include everything from the red panda to skunks, badgers weasels, and raccoons.
The mammals, once small and rodent-like, took advantage of the dinosaurs’ extinction and evolved in new directions, with some lineages eventually giving rise to the whales, seals, and manatees that live in the ocean today.
May 7, 2021 · Despite living in the same environment and doing largely the same things, seals have evolved two distinct ways to swim. One group of seals chiefly use their feet to propel them through the water, while the other uses their flippers to swim.
May 6, 2021 · This discovery shows how wing-like flippers can evolve in seals that already swim with their back feet, providing a pathway for the evolution of forelimb swimming in the fur seals and sea lions.
May 16, 2017 · From the poles to the equator, marine mammals such as seals, dolphins, and whales, play an important role in global ecosystems as apex predators, ecosystem engineers, and even organic ocean fertilisers.
