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.

The only fossil known of this dolphin to date comes from a site near Linz in Upper Austria. It was assigned to a new, ...

Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

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 ...

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 ...