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Squalodontidae or the shark-toothed dolphins is an extinct family of large toothed whales who had long narrow jaws. [2] Squalodontids are known from all continents except Antarctica, from the Oligocene to the Neogene , but they had a maximal diversity and global distribution during the Late Oligocene and Early to Middle Miocene ( 28 to 15 mya ).
Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis) is a small dolphin found in the waters around Tierra del Fuego at the foot of South America. It is also commonly known as the black-chinned dolphin or even Peale's black-chinned dolphin. However, since Rice's work [3] Peale's dolphin has been adopted as the standard common name.
The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops.They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. [3] Molecular studies show the genus contains three species: the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), and Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus).
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Scientists determined that bottlenose dolphins found close to the shore off South Carolina and much of the east coast are a different species than those living in deeper water, according to a ...
A striped dolphin leaps in the Mediterranean Sea off Toulon. The striped dolphin has a similar size and shape to several other dolphins that inhabit the same waters (see pantropical spotted dolphin, Atlantic spotted dolphin, Clymene dolphin]]). However, its colouring is very different and makes it relatively easy to notice at sea.
A pod of dolphins was spotted catching some serious air last week off the coast of San Diego, with footage of the aquatic aerobics already racking up millions of views on social media.
Akeakamai (c. 1976 – November 12, 2003) (Nickname: Ake ("ah-KAY")) was a female Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, who, along with a companion female dolphin named Phoenix, and later tankmates Elele and Hiapo, were the subjects of Louis Herman's animal language studies at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii.