how evolution engineered nature’s underwater acrobats
- Written by David Hocking, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology and Palaeontology, Monash University
Author providedFew fish can outswim a seal. Seals fly through the waves, predators in their natural element. But, unlike fish, seals are air-breathing mammals whose ancestors only returned to the water from a life on land some 30 million years ago.
On entering the water, seals had to adapt both their bodies and behaviour to become efficient...





