FAST MATURITY. “The presence of partially mineralized permanent first molars in the fetal skull indicates precocial development, which may have been a key life history trait in early whales facilitating the transition from land to sea.” (Precocial species have relatively mobile babies).
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004366
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022