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Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin)


This left dorsolateral view of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was reconstructed from X-ray CT scans.  The structures displayed within the head are components of the bioacoustic system and are shown in various colors.  read more »

This left dorsolateral view of a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was reconstructed from X-ray CT scans.  The structures displayed within the head are components of the bioacoustic system and are shown in various colors.  read more »

CT scan of Tursiops truncatus skull  - left lateral angle view

A video of a dolphin. The rendering techniques should be described here.

a caption for this dolphin image

This is a dolphin. Note that this editor allows text to be formatted. read more »

 This video was created in the 1980's at Robert Livingston's Quantitative Morphology Lab at UCSD.