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Giant whales have unique nerves like a bungee cords, researchers say
05th May, 2015
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Rorqual whales have a unique nerve structure in their mouths and tongues that can double in length and recoil like a bungee cord, University of British Columbia, or UBC, researchers said in an article published in Current Biology.
The elastic nerves explain how the giant whales can expand a huge pouch under their mouths to capture a large quantity of prey when they dive to feed.
"This discovery was totally unexpected and unlike other nerve structures we've seen in vertebrates, which are of a more fixed length," Wayne Vogl, of UBC's Cellular and Physiological Sciences Department, said. |
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