Whales evolved biosonar to chase squid into the deep

Whales evolved biosonar to chase squid into the deep
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Source: 
UCB News Center
Date Posted: 
Sep 5 2007
Summary: 
Sperm whales, dolphins and other "toothed" whales today chase squid so deep in the ocean that they have to rely on biosonar instead of their eyes to find them. Two UC Berkeley paleontologists have come up with a likely evolutionary scenario to explain how these whales developed their echolocating "biosonar" over the past 40 million years.