"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The nasal opening, which will later evolve to become blowhole in modern cetaceans, is located near the tip of the long snout.
- Increasingly lateral-facing eyes might be used to observe underwater prey, and are similar to the eyes of modern cetaceans.
- They had small brains; this suggests they were solitary and did not have the complex social structure of some modern cetaceans.
- Unlike modern cetaceans, basilosaurids retain a large external auditory meatus.
- Unlike modern cetaceans, it had a neck with seven vertebrae.
- Their dentition varied, but started to evolve towards the non-masticating teeth of modern cetaceans, and they were probably active hunters.
- It is unclear at present whether protocetids had flukes (the horizontal tail fin of modern cetaceans).
- In modern cetaceans, the semicircular canals are much smaller relative body size than in other mammals.
- Similar to modern cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins, they were air-breathing.
- This suggests that it is a transitional species between extinct land mammals and modern cetaceans.
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