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Judi Lynn

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Wed Oct 26, 2022, 11:21 PM Oct 2022

Secret communication of sea animals discovered [View all]

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If humans had listened to turtles earlier, we might have known they send messages

By Georgina Rannard
BBC News Climate and Science

A scientist has found that 53 sea creatures previously thought to be silent can actually communicate.

The creatures were sending message all along, but humans had never thought to listen to them, Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen suggests.

He used microphones to record the species, including turtles, communicating they wanted to mate or hatch from the egg.

The findings claim to re-write some of what we know about evolution. They suggest that all vertebrates that breathe through their noses and use sound to communicate descended from a single ancestor 400 million years ago.

More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63380157

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