Still Waters Posted August 23, 2017 #1 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Scientists on Wednesday unveiled an extinct species of toothless, whiskered and objectively cute mini-dolphin that plied Earth's oceans some 30 million years ago. With only a fossilised cranium—found in a river near Charleston, South Carolina—to work with, the researchers were able to reconstruct the snub-nosed mammal's evolutionary saga, describe its facial features and figure out what it snacked on. Just over a metre (three feet) from snout to tail, Inermorostrum xenops was half the size of the common bottlenose dolphin. https://phys.org/news/2017-08-toothless-dwarf-dolphin-case-evolution.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twin Posted August 23, 2017 #2 Share Posted August 23, 2017 suction feeding specialist? Oh! The first politicians. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted August 25, 2017 #3 Share Posted August 25, 2017 We can all them Hooverus Dophinus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boozemonkey Posted August 28, 2017 #4 Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) In this world of political correctness surely they should be referred to as dolphins of short stature that are dentally challenged? Edited August 28, 2017 by Boozemonkey Predictive text! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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