The ancient dolphin may have "scanned shallow waters to capture small prey in a basket of teeth," the researchers explain.

TSU, Mie Prefecture--A fossil discovery ... What emerged was the head of a dolphin about 30 centimeters long, which had 4-cm-long ear bones, eye and nose sockets, teeth and other skull parts.

Researchers discovered the Amazonian dolphin fossil in 2018 ... As they cleaned it up enough to see the shapes of tooth sockets, Benites-Palomino realized that they were looking at something ...

Evidence from the fossil, including teeth marks on the bones of a Pliocene dolphin of the species Astadelphis gastaldii reveal that the Cosmopolitodus Hastalis attacked its prey from below and behind.

A 6 million-year-old dolphin-like fossil found off the Caribbean coast of Panama has now been dubbed a new species by researchers at the Smithsonian Institute. A detailed description of the fossilized ...

MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale and dolphin varieties ...