Based on the protruding part of the upper jaw bones, museum officials determined the item brought in by Saka was a dolphin’s head and asked him to donate the fossil for its collection.
Researchers discovered the Amazonian dolphin fossil in 2018, near the Napo River in Loreto, Peru. Lead study author Aldo Benites-Palomino, a doctoral candidate in the University of Zurich’s ...
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9-million-year-old fossil of colossal Great White Shark ancestor discoveredThe fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...
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Study Sheds New Light on Fossil of Extinct Dolphin-Like Reptile That May Have Lived 100 Million Years AgoA remarkable fossil of a dolphin-like marine reptile, the ichthyosaur fossil, originating from the North Canterbury area in New Zealand, is offering an unprecedented glimpse into an extinct marine ...
Evidence from the fossil, including teeth marks on the bones of a Pliocene dolphin of the species Astadelphis gastaldii ...
MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale and dolphin varieties ...
A 6 million-year-old dolphin-like fossil found off the Caribbean coast of Panama has now been dubbed a new species by researchers at the Smithsonian Institute. A detailed description of the fossilized ...
Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark. Discovered in the Pisco basin, the nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil ...
Fossils from an ichthyosaurs found in North Canterbury are helping advanced understanding of these dolphin-like reptiles.
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