Baikal seals can live up to 40 and 50 years, and much like the rings of a tree trunk, the layers of dentine within their teeth can be studied and linked to environmental patterns and changes over ...

Seals in Lake Baikal use comb-shaped teeth to catch scores of amphipods, a study finds. The diet may be behind the seals’ relative success.

Example of Baikal seal skull specimens. (a) Maxilla and (b) mandible tooth row. (c–f) Enlarged view of maxilla teeth. (c) Yellow arrows represent the number of cusps. (d) Yellow dashed line ...

Baikal seals have unique teeth morphology compared to the closely related species. (IMAGE) The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI ...

A Baikal seal skull, with its distinctive teeth. NIPR. 2 / 3. A group of Baikal seals, which eat a surprising number of amphipods. withGod/Depositphotos. 3 / 3.

The Baikal seal is the only freshwater species of its kind and can stay under the surface for up to an hour and reach incredible depths of 1,000ft. It shares the crystal clear waters with giant ...

Seal: Seals are part of a group of mammals called pinnipeds, ... True seals range in size from the 3 feet and 100 pounds Baikal seal to the 16 feet and 7,100 pounds southern elephant seal male.

Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is home to 80,000 seals. They spend their days zooming through the water in pursuit of delicious fish, crowding onto rocks to sun themselves, and, when winter hits ...

A team of researchers at Ehime University revealed the binding affinities of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) to Baikal seal peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) using in vitro ...