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Seals don’t need to regulate swimming-related blood pulses—and if that’s what a cranial rete mirabile is for, it explains why seals don’t have one.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

Vogl also points out that seals—which belong to a different marine mammal group—don’t have a rete mirabile around their brain.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

The plate was a map of the sky and the rete simulated the daily movement of the earth in relation to the stars.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

The latter is the rete mucosum, whose cells contain the pigment which gives color to the skin.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Another Gothic astrolabe with a similar gear ring on the rete, said to date from ca.

From On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla) Price

Vogl speculates that the ancestors of cetaceans probably had retia mirabilia leading to the brain before they ever took to the oceans—but that this network served a different purpose on land.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

In most animals that have them, retia mirabilia serve as a mechanism for temperature regulation, and they have a unique structure.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

Dolphins and other cetaceans possess additional retia mirabilia snaking around their lungs, up their spine and into their brain.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

Scientists have long known that many animals have retia mirabilia.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022

These retia mirabilia are often found in other parts of the mammalian body, though their function is still not satisfactorily explained.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various