«It's important we have this information,» says Ted Cranford, a marine mammalogist at San Diego State University. (sciencemag.org)
Overall, the saga of M. hotaula shows «that there are probably even more species of beaked whales that we don't know about,» says Phil Clapham, a marine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. (sciencemag.org)
These inconsistencies can be resolved by the simple hypothesis that placental mammals originated in Gondwanaland, not Laurasia, says mammalogist Tim Flannery, director of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide. (discovermagazine.com)