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Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: Feeding behavior, electroreception, and loss of teeth

The modern platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, has an eye structure similar to aquatic mammals; however, platypuses also have a “sixth sense” associated with the bill electro- and mechanoreception that they use without opening their eyes underwater. We hypothesize that Ornithorhynchus and the Miocen...

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Autores principales: Asahara, Masakazu, Koizumi, Masahiro, Macrini, Thomas E., Hand, Suzanne J., Archer, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27757425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601329