World’s largest dolphin fossil have been uncovered in the Peruvian Amazon, showing the mammal measured up to 11 feet long. In the Peruvian Amazon, the remains of an ancient species distantly ...

Notably, the closest living relatives to this prehistoric dolphin ... from the University of Zurich in Switzerland has ...

A dolphin that swam the waters of the Amazon basin 16 million ... remarkable aspect," says paleontologist Aldo Benites-Palomino of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. "With this fossil record ...

Scientists have recently discovered a giant river dolphin in Peru’s Amazonian rivers; the uncovered skull belongs to a member of a species that migrated from the ocean to Amazonian rivers some ...

“The dolphin was the cherry on top,” he says. The prehistoric dolphin skull has been deposited in the Museo de Historia Natural in Lima, where Palomino was born.

University of Otago researchers have formally identified and named a fossil dolphin which they discovered ... along with other prehistoric treasures thanks to the work of the late Emeritus ...

A Kermit the Frog-inspired fossil that lived 270 million years ago has finally been identified 40 years after it was unearthed in Texas. Researchers at the Smithsonian Museum and George Washington ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - If a massive 7-foot alligator gar fish being released in Louisiana looks prehistoric to you, you're basically right. "Gars date back to the late Jurassic period," said ...

But, millennia later, prehistoric Americans did make their mark. Ohio has several sites where early artists or scribes left enduring evidence of their creativity. Spring getaways:State Park lodges ...

Researchers say they have uncovered evidence of a brutal tradition of ritualized human sacrifice that appears to have been practiced for at least two millennia in prehistoric times. The findings ...

Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire. The study is published in the Journal of Field ...

Archaeologists have discovered a large prehistoric "henge," shedding new light on a sacred site that was in use for millennia. The henge, a type of circular earthwork, came to light during ...