where do seal live

2007-09-25 12:10 am
where do seal live

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2007-09-25 12:33 am
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Seal are marine mammals belonging to the former biological suborder Pinnipedia (sometimes now a superfamily) of the order Carnivora. The pinnipeds now fall within the suborder Caniformia and comprise the families Odobenidae (walruses), Otariidae (sea lions, eared seals, and fur seals), and Phocidae (true seals). Recent molecular analysis reveals that the closest living relatives of the pinnipeds are the bears, which was already suspected for some time.[1] An alternative hypothesis held that pinnipeds are polyphyletic, with the true seals derived from otterlike creatures and the walruses and eared seals from bearlike creatures, but the aforementioned molecular study established that the pinnipeds are indeed monophyletic (derived from a common ancestor).
Seal apparently evolved from a bearlike ancestor about 23 million years ago, at the transition between the warmer Paleogene period and the cooler Neogene period. First true seals and then walruses branched off, forming new families
2007-09-25 12:17 am
They live in the oceans.


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