Parapontoporia, an extinct genus of long-snouted dolphins that lived off the Pacific coast of North America from the Late Miocene epoch until the Pliocene,...
Aureia rerehua had unique teeth which might have formed a cage around small fish; these teeth, along with a weak vertex, flexible neck, and the smallest...
Pebanista yacuruna is the closest relative of living South Asian river dolphins (genus Platanista).
Artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna. Image...
In a new paper published this month in the journal Diversity, paleontologists described the fossilized skeletons of the dolphin genus Xenorophus from the...
Hearing has evolved independently many times in the animal kingdom and is prominent in various insects and vertebrates for communication and predator detection....
Toothed whales — apex predators varying in size from 40-kg porpoises to 50-ton sperm whales — use narrow beams of high intensity sound to echolocate...
27-million-year-old fossil of newly-discovered toothed whale species provides clues about evolution of high-frequency hearing.
Echovenator sandersi produces...
An international team of scientists from Israel and Thailand has found that Old World fruit bats, which have always been classified as non-echolocating,...
Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) compete for prey by jamming each other’s sonar, says a new study carried out by Wake Forest University...
According to European scientists reporting in the journal Nature, bottlenose dolphins and bats have a genetic resemblance due to their echolocation capability.
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