Researchers reveal new New Zealand fossil dolphin

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:36 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org) —A newly recognised fossil dolphin from New Zealand, dubbed Papahu taitapu, is the first of its kind ever found and may be a close relation to the ancestors of modern dolphins and toothed whales, according to University of Otago researchers.

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