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Dawson's Creek Dolphin

  • 21-01-2011 3:39pm
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    Galvasean
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    Those weird looking extinct creatures just keep on coming out of the woodwork. Now we have a type of dolphin with a Dutch name and massive forhead- a bit like Dawson's Creek actor James Van Der Beek.
    As with today's pilot whales, the team also suspects that the new dolphin used its large forehead for echolocation, a biological form of sonar that allows dolphins and some whales to navigate in murky conditions.

    "Pilot whales seem to have developed this tool in some special way," Post said via email, "and [Hoekman's blunt-snouted dolphins] seem to have been the forerunner."

    The new dolphin species is described in the 2010 issue of the yearly Dutch journal Deinsea. The fossil snout is currently on display at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.

    Read more here.

    new-fossil-dolphin-found_29974_600x450.jpg
    Illustration by Remie Bakker.
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