15-foot-long skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales

ScienceDaily
Jul 9, 2020, 11:35 am174 pts
A report 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…

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