A new prehistoric dolphin species has been discovered, and it had excellent high-frequency hearing abilities that were similar to those of dolphins today. The animal lived around 22 million years ...

“The dolphin was the cherry on top,” he says. The prehistoric dolphin skull has been deposited in the Museo de Historia Natural in Lima, where Palomino was born.

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 ...

A giant new species of freshwater dolphin, dating back approximately between 24 and 16 million year, was recently discovered by a team of paleontologists in the Peruvian Amazon. The team was from ...

Daniel Verhelst Scientists have discovered a new species of prehistoric dolphin with strange, tusk-like teeth that have never been seen in living cetaceans. The odd-looking creature swam the ...

WUHAN -- A white-flag dolphin has been seen in Yangtze River in east China, just days after a leading Chinese scientist said the animal was likely extinct. A baiji dolphin. [File] A man with a ...

These river dolphins are the first cetaceans – the mammal group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – to have gone extinct in recent history. But did we ever stand a chance of saving them, ...

yacuruna may have been driven extinct during a broader ecological ... and that might also have been the fate of this giant dolphin.” Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

The fossil, it turned out, was a remarkably intact skull of a 15 million-year-old, now-extinct dolphin-like creature that once swam in a shallow sea that covered most of Maryland. Groff said the ...

Now researchers are adding a bizarre dolphin to the mix that may have used tusklike teeth to thrash prey into submission. The dolphin’s nearly complete skull was collected in 1998, from a cliff ...