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Discovery of rare new fossil sheds light on New Zealand's extinct dolphin-like reptiles
The fossils included a part of the base of the skull, parts of the shoulder and front flipper, as well as a complete left pelvis and most of a hind flipper. Many vertebrae and flipper bones were ...
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All in the Family
Fish appear in the fossil record before four-legged ... we find--surprise!--that the bones inside the dolphin's front flippers look a lot like wolf leg bones. Dolphins and wolves share this ...
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New mosasaur species from the ‘kingdom of fossils’ identified
Its scientific name Megapterygius Wakayamaensis means large wing from Wakayama Prefecture, referring to the fossil’s distinctive flippers that ... may have had a dolphin-like dorsal fin, a ...
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The discovery of a rare new fossil sheds light on NZ’s extinct dolphin-like reptiles
The fossils included a part of the base of the skull, parts of the shoulder and front flipper, as well as a complete left pelvis and most of a hind flipper. Many vertebrae and flipper bones were ...