Elise Archer,Minister for the Arts A new exhibition about Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, one of Australia's most intriguing colonial artists, has opened.
How seals adapted to move through water
Collaboration of zoologists and engineers solves seal “evolutionary riddle”.
Have you ever wondered how seals learned to perform their skilled underwater acrobatics?
Zoologist David Hocking, formerly of Monash University and now curator of vertebrate zoology and palaeontology at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, did, and says he has now helped “to solve an evolutionary riddle at the heart of seal evolution”.
Seals and sea lions propel themselves through the water to catch their prey – but true seals (otariids) generally use their front flippers while eared seals (phocids) use their back feet, and the other limbs are used for steering.
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