Dozens of species were assumed to be mute — until they were recorded making sounds

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🐢 Do turtles talk? Many species have long been thought to be mute, but new evidence shows that an array of turtles, reptiles and fish do in fact vocalize — and researchers caught the sounds on tape.

He says the findings point to a common ancestor some 407 million years ago.

Kelley says the paper's conclusion, mapping these vocalizations onto the evolutionary tree, make sense. He notes there are unique challenges in trying to study animal sounds over millions of years.

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