Sentences with phrase «suggests echolocation»
New fossil suggests echolocation evolved early in whales.
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Previous research suggested that these marine mammals could dull their hearing before uttering outgoing echolocation clicks, which are very loud.
Microbats, the group of bats that emit echolocation signals from the larynx, came under close scrutiny because, surprisingly, some molecular studies divided them into two groups that diverged long ago, suggesting that echolocation evolved twice.
Although the majority of those that use echolocation — emitting sound waves that bounce off objects — to hunt are usually lumped into one group, a new study suggests that some belong in a separate category.
«Our findings suggest that FOXP2 may have played a crucial role during the evolution and diversification of echolocation behavior in bats,» says Rossiter.