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Published: 2020-02-04 07:09:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1738; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Odobenocetops is an extinct species of toothed whale from the Pliocene epoch of South America. It’s closely related to species like porpoises, narwhal and beluga. Odobenocetops shows an astonishing feeding adaption which can be compared to that of walruses. They probably fed on molluscs, sucking them out of the sea bottom and removed the shells with their powerful tongue. The tusks, on the other hand, probably didn’t play a role in their feeding behaviour and were potentially used by males for social competition.
Both species of Odobenocetops coexisted during the Pliocene epoch of Peru, South America, but both developed a different method of hunting molluscs in the seabed. O. peruvianus had better (binocular) vision while O. leptodon searched for prey by using echolocation! Discover more about both species of Odobenocetops at www.meetthefossyls.com
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