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fossil phocids date from the mid-Miocene, 15
million years ago in the
north Atlantic.
Until recently, many
researchers believed that
phocids evolved...
- comparison,
terrestrial locomotion by
phocids is more ****bersome.
Otariids have
visible external ears,
while phocids and
walruses lack these.
Pinnipeds have...
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commonly known either as sea
lions or fur seals,
distinct from true
seals (
phocids) and the
walrus (odobenids).
Otariids are
adapted to a
semiaquatic lifestyle...
- seal), to 2,400 kg (5,300 lb) and 5 m (16 ft) (southern
elephant seal).
Phocids are
found throughout the world's oceans.
Family Otariidae (eared seals...
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because their trachea is
different from that of
other Northern Pacific phocids. A
majority of the
rings in the
trachea are
incomplete with only a membrane...
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observed lying on
their sides when on land.
Weddell seals are non-migratory
phocids that move
regionally to
follow the
distribution of
breathing holes and...
- Ross's foxes').[citation needed] The Ross seal, one of the four
Antarctic phocids,
first described during the Ross
expedition The
James Ross Strait, Ross...
- near
veins bringing cooled venous blood from the skin. In
odobenids and
phocids, the
location of the
testes is para-abdominal,
though otariids have scrotal...
-
multigene analysis indicates the
odobenids and
otariids diverged from the
phocids about 20–26
million years ago,
while the
odobenids and the
otariids separated...
- deep
internal nares and large, rounded, front-facing orbits. Like
other phocids, it
possesses enlarged auditory bullae and
lacks a
sagittal crest. The...
