Walrus Ancestors May Have Developed Feeding Methods to Adapt to Changing Climate
Discover Magazine - Wed 14 Aug 24Researchers take a new look at old walrus-like fossils and reclassify them based on skull, teeth, and jaws, rather than tusks.
Extinct walrus-like mammal that sucked prey in prehistoric times discovered
Interesting Engineering - Tue 13 Aug 24 Extinct Walrus-Like Species Discovered: New Insights into Marine Mammal Evolution, Science Blog - Tue 13 Aug 24Extinct Walrus-Like Mammal Species Found in North Atlantic, Mirage News - Tue 13 Aug 24
I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not
New York Times - Tue 13 Aug 24Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses.
New species of extinct walrus-like mammal discovered in the North Atlantic
Phys.org - Tue 13 Aug 24A new discovery by a team of paleontologists, led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville (University of Tsukuba, Japan), has uncovered a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from the Lower Pleistocene ...
New Species of Extinct Walrus-Like Mammal Discovered in the North Atlantic, SciTechDaily - Tue 20 Aug 24New species of extinct walrus-like mammal discovered in the North Atlantic, Scienmag - Tue 13 Aug 24
New species of extinct walrus-like mammal discovered in the North Atlantic, Eurekalert - Tue 13 Aug 24
New species of extinct walrus discovered in the North Atlantic
Salon - Thu 15 Aug 24The extinct walrus Ontocetus posti is believed to have eaten via suction-feeding like modern walruses
New species of extinct walrus discovered
Popular Science - Tue 13 Aug 24A team of paleontologists have uncovered a new species of extinct walrus that lived roughly 5.3 million years ago. Ontocetus posti bears some surprising similarities in feeding adaptations ...
Paleontologists Discover New Species of Extinct Walrus
Sci.News - Wed 14 Aug 24Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from a nearly complete pair of fossilized jaws from the Early Pleistocene of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands ...