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

A Peruvian desert is proving to be invaluable when it comes to marine fossils given its ability to keep them intact for ...

teeth and other skull parts. Because dolphins use ultrasonic waves to sense their surroundings, their ears are characterized by complicated structures. The fossil bore no similarities to other ...

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 ...