New species of extinct dolphin sheds light on river dolphin history
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 03:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers described a new fossil dolphin species from the Miocene -- dating to more than 16 million years ago -- of the Pisco Basin, a desert on the coast of Peru. It belongs to a rare extinct family of marine dolphins, the squalodelphinids, which are related to the endangered Ganges and Indus river dolphins living today.
