Paleontologists announced the discovery of the world's largest known river dolphin, that experts say lived millions of years ...
A dolphin that swam the waters of the Amazon basin 16 million years ago is a contender for the largest freshwater toothed ...
says Aldo Benites-Palomino at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. The team saw the animal’s fossilised skull poking out of a river embankment and knew right away it was a dolphin.
Now extinct, Pebanista yacuruna is the largest known freshwater dolphin species and lived 16 million years ago.
World’s largest dolphin fossil have been uncovered in the Peruvian Amazon, showing the mammal measured up to 11 feet long.In the Peruvian Amazon, the remains of an ancient species ...
A newly identified ancient skull found in Peru has revealed an extinct giant called Pebanista yacuruna that offers insight ...
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According to a report published by The Guardian, it was determined that the closest relative of the extinct dolphin species lived 10,000 kilometers (6,213 miles) away in Southeast Asia.
“There’s a sense of sadness there. … There are species that have gone and will go extinct because of this. “ Climate change also has diminished another winter freeze benefit, Lorimer ...
A dolphin that lived in the Amazon 16 million years ago grew to a length of 3.5 metres – larger than any other freshwater ...
Its closest living relatives are river dolphins living more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) away in South Asia, according to researchers who recently described the previously unknown extinct ...
Now, paleontologists have uncovered a fossilized skull belonging to a 16-million-year-old extinct river dolphin species in ... at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, said in a statement.