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'Chatty Turtles' Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals

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A new study in Nature Communications has collected vocal recordings from 53 species of turtles and other animals that were otherwise considered to be mute. The last common ancestor of all lung, fish and tetrapods started vocalizing more than 400 million years ago. This is Scientific American, 60-Second Science. I'm Pekingam Iamet.

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