Among the toothed whales, the dolphins and porpoises split away from the other cetaceans about 20 MYA, during the Miocene. They were smaller and faster than the baleen whales, and so they specialized on hunting fish and similar sea animals in the shallow, coastal seas. As a rule, they are fast, sleek and intelligent mammals, many of which survive even in modern times.
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