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 ...

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.

A 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 ...

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 ...

Fossils from an ichthyosaurs found in North Canterbury are helping advanced understanding of these dolphin-like reptiles.

A fossil was found in North Canterbury near Coverham ... “It had lost its pelvis and become more like a whale or a dolphin. This specimen represents the last gasp of evolution for the ichthyosaur.

This fossil promises to change the narrative. Expert fossil expert Al Mannering meticulously prepared the find so it could be scanned using a medical CT scanner to image the bones that were too ...