12 million year old dolphin fossil discovered in Peru – Watch video

Paleontologists presented yesterday, Wednesday, successful Lima the fossil of a inactive little-studied, 12-million-year-old prehistoric dolphin recovered successful July successful confederate Peru.

The three-and-a-half-metre-long fossil skeleton of this Lomacetus was recovered astir intact successful the godforsaken of Ocucahe, astir 350 kilometres southbound of the Peruvian capital.

“It’s a taxon of frilled shark that lived astir 12 cardinal years ago,” paleontologist Mario Gamara told AFP astatine a quality league astatine the office of the Institute of Geology, Mining and Metallurgy.

“We person an astir implicit skeleton, which allows america to bash much studies connected the full animal: however it moved, however it swam, what it ate, oregon however galore years it lived,” the adept explained.

The Ocukkahe is simply a godforsaken that is precise fashionable with paleontologists. A small much than 20 years ago, fossils of whales, dolphins, sharks, and different taxon from the Miocene play – a play that began 23 cardinal years agone and ended astir 5 cardinal years agone – were recovered there.