Dolphins and whales use sound to communicate, navigate and hunt. New research suggests that the collections of fatty tissue that enable toothed whales to do so may have evolved from their skull muscles and bone marrow.
Toothed whale echolocation organs evolved from jaw muscles, new research suggests retrieved 8 April 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-04-toothed-whale-echolocation-evolved-jaw.html
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