New Species of Extinct River Dolphin Discovered in Smithsonian Collection
8/16/2016
Researchers at the Smithsonian have identified a new species of river dolphin thanks to a fossil that has been in the museum's collection for over 60 ...
A previously unknown species of dolphin -- one that has been extinct for millions of years -- has been identified using a fossil jaw fragment that had ...
The fossil Arktocara yakataga (resting on an 1875 ethnographic map of Alaska) belonged to a dolphin that swam in subarctic marine waters around 25 ...
Fossil skull of Arktocara yakataga, an ancestor of the South Asian river dolphin recently discovered in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History ...
Near the skull of Arktocara is a cetacean tooth, likely belonging to a killer whale (Orcinus orca), collected by Aleš Hrdlicka, a Smithsonian ...
By studying the skull and comparing it to those of other dolphins, both living and extinct, Boersma determined that A. yakataga is a relative of the South ...
It is one of the most enigmatic animals on the planet - a blind species of dolphin that is only rarely glimpsed breaking the murky waters of rivers in ...