A new prehistoric dolphin species has been discovered, and it had excellent high-frequency hearing abilities that were similar to those of dolphins today. The animal lived around 22 million years ...

The sinuses of the ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from becoming deep divers like dolphins and whales, according […] ...

Bajii Yangtze dolphin The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct reports a scientific expedition from the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan, China, and the Swiss-based baiji.org ...

Only recently were a pair of Smithsonian paleontologists able to trace its evolutionary origins, by X-ray scanning the fossil and building a digital model, finding that it was a previously undescribed ...

WWF calls for immediate ban on gill nets near dolphin pools Bangkok --The population of critically ... shrunk by 50 per cent this year alone and the population is functionally extinct in Laos, ...

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...