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In 2020, a fossil dating from the Oligocene was studied in South Carolina by a US research team. The fossil is that of an ancestor of the dolphin family named Ankylorhiza, a formidable predator from the Cenozoic era<\/a>. This extraordinary skeleton provides a better understanding of the evolutionary period of animals that feed by means of filtration and echolocation like few other fossils have done to date.<\/p>\n

Unearthed in 1990, the fossil has been entrusted to the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History in Charleston, South Carolina (US). The ensuing findings have recently been published in the scientific journal Current Biology<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2020, a fossil dating from the Oligocene was studied in South Carolina by a US research team. The fossil is that of an ancestor of the dolphin family named Ankylorhiza, a formidable predator from the Cenozoic era. 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