Published Date:
07 March 2009
By Dorothy H Crawford
IN THE year of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, two extraordinary examples of animal adaptation are under study in the southern oceans.
The first investigation began when a fisherman in the Shark Bay area of Western Australia spied a bottlenose dolphin with a "tumour" on its nose. This turned out to be a sponge, carried by several members of an extended family of Shark Bay dolphins....
The full article contains 723 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
06 March 2009 8:10 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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