15-foot-long skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales
Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 10:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The 15-foot-long dolphin (Ankylorhiza tiedemani comb. n.) lived during the Oligocene—about 25 million years ago—and was previously known only from a partial rostrum (snout) fossil.