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Mike Fedak’s team at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland has recruited seals as oceanographers. At first the group was equipping seals in the Southern Ocean with data recorders to study sea ...
"The effects of El Nino on pinniped populations in the Eastern Pacific." In Pinnipeds and El Nino. Trillmich, F. and Ono, K. A., editors. 247–270. New York: Springer-Verlag. Year 1991 Identifier 70359 ...
Data on the pinniped craniofacial musculoskeletal system and its function in aquatic feeding are rare. In fact, Kienle’s research provides foundational data for further studies on pinnipeds and ...
NORWALK, CT – Floor-to-ceiling windows offer great underwater views of the seals in “Pinniped Cove,” an enormous new seal habitat opening June 8 in The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.
Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...
Technical Terms Pinniped: Marine carnivorous mammals including seals, sea lions and walruses, typically adapted to both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
It is proposed (1) that the evolution of pinniped polygyny can profitably be examined as an integral part of a complex adaptive suite including physiology, morphology, ecology, and distribution which ...
Data resulting from an immunological study of relationships among fissiped and pinniped albumins show that albumin evolution has occurred in a regular fashion in these taxa. This finding allows the ...
Mike Fedak’s team at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland has recruited seals as oceanographers. At first the group was equipping seals in the Southern Ocean with data recorders to study sea ...