[TigerLikesRooster]

Given enough time, the same brain structure can emerge from different mammal species.

[TigerLikesRooster]

We found your long lost cousin.
He is a better swimmer.:-)

[EveningStar]

ping

[RightWhale]

Although the function of spindle neurons is not well understood, they may be involved in cognition -- learning, remembering and recognizing the world around

Everything else is involved, why not this kind of cell too?

[socal_parrot]

IBTTKIABSP!!!

In before the Ted Kennedy in a bathing suit pic!!!

[llevrok]

This is not surprising.

30 percent of human DNA is the same as in daffodils (fact).

[Condor51]

The finding may help explain some of the behaviours seen in whales, such as ... tool usage, the researchers report in The Anatomical Record.

I've give a shiny new nickel for ONE picture of a whale using a Hammer.

[SunkenCiv]

"Opposable fins" ping. :')

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[true_blue_texican]

I heard of "screwing the pooch" but "screwing the whale"?!?!

[GoLightly]

This might mean such whales are more intelligent than they have been given credit for, and suggests the basis for complex brains either evolved more than once, or has gone unused by most species of animals, the researchers said.

Don't use it, you lose it part of the theory of evolution? Is the inclusion of dolphins on the list new information or was that already known?

[Dustbunny]

Amazing what they have been able to conclude from this find. /sarc

[shuckmaster]

They're smart enough to just stay in the water.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

tool usage

Tool usage in whales? I hadn't heard that. Could somebody please enlighten me?

[nmh]

Gee, did we "evolve" from humpback whales?