Open your eyes to the wonder of Dolphins World Level -2 , where a giant window projects you into the underwater kingdom.
Observation is the key to better understanding the world of nature. From Konrad Lorenz to Jacques Cousteau, all the greatest researchers have supported this theory. Dolphins World represents a window into the world of bottlenose dolphins and a point of connection between knowledge and research, where universities, graduate students, researchers and experts can push the limits of our knowledge.
An immense glass window that extends for over 30 square meters. A portal that allows you to observe the family of bottlenose dolphins from an unusual angle. Admire the dolphins as they swim, play and interact with each other and with their trainers. It is right here that some of the scientific studies take place, to learn about the characteristics of dolphins, their evolution and to raise public awareness of their conservation and protection.
In Dolphins World you can experience a journey back in time, millions of years ago, when dolphins were not yet masters of seas that we know today. Their evolutionary history is a fascinating tale of adaptation and transformation, an odyssey that took them from the mainland to the ocean depths.
The evolutionary history of Cetaceans is an anomaly among living mammals, as cetaceans are the only ones completely tied to the aquatic environment, but they evolved from a terrestrial ancestor. How a terrestrial creature could have generated marine animals remained a mystery until recently, when the discovery of several fossil finds began to shed light on the subject.
The primitive cetaceans, the Archaeocetes, moved from land to sea in the Eocene, in a period between 55 and 34 million years ago. The Eocene represents a milestone in the evolutionary history of these animals. A second fundamental moment is placed in the Oligocene (between 34 and 23 million years ago) when the current orders of cetaceans, namely Mysticeti and Odontoceti, differentiated. The Pakicetus , with legs and a robust tail, is one of the first pioneers of this transition, a link between land and sea.
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