Zalophus wollebaeki

Posted 6 July 2009 by

Zalophus wollebaeki -- Juvenile Galápagos sea lion, suckling.

5 Comments

KP · 6 July 2009

Does anyone have a reference on the evolution of pinnipeds?

Henry J · 6 July 2009

The list of references in http://tolweb.org/Carnivora/15971 might have something along those lines; some of them have "pinniped" in the title.

fnxtr · 6 July 2009

Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene dataset
Jeff W Higdon,1 Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds,2 Robin MD Beck,3 and Steven H Ferguson4

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17996107

Jedidiah Palosaari · 7 July 2009

That's one big Mother Sucker!

Paul Burnett · 7 July 2009

KP said: Does anyone have a reference on the evolution of pinnipeds?
"A model for the evolution of pinniped polygyny" - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2406835 "Seal With "Arms" Discovered -- Evolution at Work" - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090422-seal-evolution-missing-link.html Google is your friend.