Rostrum (anatomy)
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Rostrum is a term used in anatomy for several kinds of hardened, or bony, beak-like structures or extensions projecting out from the skull or mouthparts of an animal. Despite some visual similarity, m
The rostrum (beak) of a grey heron
Crustacean: the rostrum of the shrimp Macrobrachium rosenbergii is serrated along both edges.
Insect: assassin bug piercing its prey with its rostrum
Cephalopod: the two-part beak of a giant squid
Dolphin
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A dolphin is any one of the 40 extant species of aquatic mammal from the cetacean families Delphinidae, Platanistidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae, and the probably extinct Lipotidae. All these families be
The face of a common bottlenose dolphin
A pod of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Red Sea
Dolphins surfing at Snapper Rocks, Queensland, Australia