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 ...
This find significantly advanced our understanding of these dolphin-like reptiles in Aotearoa ... to the lack of well-preserved specimens. This fossil promises to change the narrative.
This find significantly advanced our understanding of these dolphin-like reptiles in Aotearoa ... to the lack of well-preserved specimens. This fossil promises to change the narrative.
Scientists unveiled a 16 million-year-old fossil skull unearthed in Peru of a river dolphin that once swam in waters that are now the Amazon, and whose closest living relative is the South Asian ...