A groundbreaking discovery was made in the Peruvian Amazon as a team of paleontologists from the University of Zurich uncovered a new species of freshwater dolphin dating back between 24 and 16 million years.
A giant new species of freshwater dolphin, dating back approximately between 24 and 16 million year, was recently discovered by a team of paleontologists in the Peruvian Amazon.The team was from the University of Zurich.The university said the newly identified species, dubbed Pebanista yacuruna, spanned between 3 to 3.5 meters. It was discovered during an expedition in 2018."We discovered that its size is not the only remarkable aspect," said lead author Aldo Benites-Palomino.
"With this fossil record unearthed in the Amazon, we expected to find close relatives of the living Amazon river dolphin – but instead the closest cousins of Pebanista are the South Asian river dolphins .
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