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Orcas are the apex predators of the modern oceans and are incredibly complex, social animals. But how did these remarkable creatures evolve? The fossil record has preserved a few extinct members of the Killer Whale lineage, and in this video we'll be exploring what we know about the ancient evolution of these cetaceans.
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Orcas are the apex predators of the modern oceans and are incredibly complex, social animals. But how did these remarkable creatures evolve? The fossil record has preserved a few extinct members of the Killer Whale lineage, and in this video we'll be exploring what we know about the ancient evolution of these cetaceans.
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Sources:
nature.com/articles/ncomms11693
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15099
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16137
academic.oup.com/jhered/article/114/2/94/7086686
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00239.x
academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/69/3/479/5601630?login=false
web.archive.org/web/20110716052429/http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=9753&style=default
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/6324/6279
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128043271001011
link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2148-11-65
schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/254/75566/A_new_delphinid_record_Odontoceti_Cetacea_from_the?af=crossref
researchgate.net/publication/292704391_The_Odontoceti_Mammalia_Cetacea_from_Italian_Pliocene_Systematics_and_phylogenesis_of_Delphinidae
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcinus_citoniensis
https://etd.adm.unipi.it/t/etd-11142019-001949/
dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_10834379_po_ART0003832313.pdf?contentNo=1&alternativeNo=
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcinus_meyeri
https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1011369/
cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(22)00263-9.pdf
