Sentences with phrase «totoaba ear bones»

Earlier analyses of ancient totoaba ear bones show that juveniles once stayed in the estuary for the first several years of their lives.

* Correction, 4 April, 3:50 p.m.: This item has been updated to more clearly acknowledge a previous, independent analysis of ancient totoaba ear bones.

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Archaeologists studying totoaba bones from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone from the fish's inner ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.