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Cetacean Chronicles: Deep-Sea Lexicon Unveiled
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Across
- 1. Complex social structure found in some baleen families
- 2. Biological sonar enabling aquatic navigation and hunting
- 3. Ancient whale classification term with twin features
- 4. Thermal insulator vital beneath Arctic robes
- 8. Obscure genus unrelated here but a cryptic distraction
- 10. Bone shape resembling a ship’s keel, found in cetaceans
- 11. Fin usually bearing specialized tubercles in humpbacks
- 13. Bone in cetacean lower jaw aiding prey detection
Down
- 5. Surface lined with throat grooves characteristic of rorquals
- 6. Genus name linking rorquals with pleated throats
- 7. How clues here are designed—to conceal and reveal subtly
- 9. Organ that modulates click frequencies in odontocetes
- 12. Cetacean famed for copious spermaceti organ and deep dives
- 14. Sessile crustaceans hitchhiking on whale epidermis
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