Skulls of deer, fin whale and spotted dolphin (IMAGE)

Experimental Biology

Skulls of deer, fin whale and spotted dolphin

Caption

(left to right) Color-altered photographs showing skulls of a white-tail deer (Odocoileus virginianus), fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) and pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) as viewed from the top. These skulls show the different positions of the nostrils in the three species, at the tip of the snout in the deer and toward the back of the snout and opening "up" in the cetaceans.

Credit

Rachel Roston: deer, NCSM 14152; cetaceans modified from True (1904) and Palacios et al. (2014), respectively

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