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OCEAN LIFE: Having flat teeth is one way that these animals differ from the 
related dolphins who have pointy triangular teeth ... OCEAN LIFE: The manatee 
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Four-legged land mammals that returned to the sea, the sirenians shed their hind 
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terrestrial mammals (not including bats) managed to ... The two taxa also use 
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... From above the water's surface, the animal's nose and nostrils are often the 
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they must ... Picture of a male elk, or wapiti, foraging for food under a thick blanket
. [DOC] [TLE] Evolution of mammals - Wikipedia [PAR] The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first 
appearance of their ... This does not include the mammal-like reptiles, a group 
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articular bones evolved into the incus and malleus bones in ...... Sirenia (
manatees, dugongs)... [DOC] [TLE] Lecture Notes The Biology of Marine Mammals Spring 2010 [PAR] *by appointment; I am also available by appointment at other times ... Any 
mammal that takes to the sea for part of its life ... Sirenians (dugongs and 
manatees) ... Uses tongue as a piston to suck food into mouth along benthos .... 
Distantly related taxa can come to resemble one another through the process .... 
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the Florida Peninsula looks like a land caught in a tug of war between the United 
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..... it into their mouth, similar to the way an elephant uses its trunk to gather food. [DOC] [TLE] En parker mammal dk eyewitness by Argoteca - issuu [PAR] Sep 10, 2016 ... 4 species Skull shown: West African manatee See also pp. .... indicate it opened 
its mouth wide and stabbed its prey to death. ... In the water, as on the land, new 
mammal species were evolving while others died out. ..... Yet it is only distantly 
related, having evolved the same system of defense separately. [DOC] [TLE] Asian Elephant - Elephas maximus - Details - Encyclopedia of Life [PAR] Asian elephants are smaller than their African savannah relatives ... Elephants 
support their stocky body on stout, pillar-like legs, and the nose ... Elephants use 
their dextrous trunk to pluck at grasses and pass them into their mouths; ...... 
Family units also form looser associations, or bond groups, with more distantly 
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Question: The manatee is distantly related to this land mammal that also uses its snout to push food into its mouth
Answer: elephant