Biology
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Deep time tracking devices: Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations
Many whales take long journeys each year, spending summers feeding in cold waters and moving to warm tropical waters to breed. One theory suggests that these long-distance migrations originated around 5 million years ago, when ocean productivity became increasingly patchy.
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