In a beluga whale, the positions of sound receiving areas on the head surface were
determined by comparing the acoustic delays from different sound source positions. For this …

Cetaceans are obligate aquatic mammals derived from terrestrial artiodactyls. The defining
characteristic of cetaceans is a thick and dense lip (pachyosteosclerotic involucrum) of an …

Modifications of the morphology and acoustic properties of the ossicular chain are among
the major changes that accompanied the adaptation of Cetacea to the aquatic environment …

Anatomists and dinosaurs have a long and entwined history. For example, some readers of
this journal—and members of its parent association, The American Association of …

Cetaceans descend from land mammals. Consequently, their hearing apparatus basically
consists of the same anatomical components. Whales, as land mammals, feature an outer …

There is limited research discussing comparative multisensory integration in echolocating
mammals. Multisensory integration is the combination of redundant stimulus information …

Pinnipeds are semiaquatic carnivorans that spend most of their lives in water and use
coastal terrestrial, or ice pack, environments to breed, molt and rest. Certain characteristics …

En la región sur del estado de Baja California Sur (BCS), México, se localiza la cuenca
sedimentaria Los Barriles, que formó parte de la extensión de la apertura del Golfo de …

After World War II, harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) were one of the most common
cetaceans in the Puget Sound (Scheffer and Slipp 1948), yet by the time the Marine Mammal …

The mandibular conduction hypothesis in dolphins suggests that the pinna has been
functionally replaced by a mandibular “acoustic window.” Using tomography, 3D models of …