Lima: Recently, an international team of experts found the remains of a giant freshwater dolphin in the Amazon, which is about 100 million years old.
According to media reports, scientists from the University of Zurich in Switzerland discovered the remains of a dolphin, which is the largest species of river dolphin ever discovered.
The name of this species is Pebanista yacuruna. “After two decades of work in South America, we have found the remains of many giant animals from the region, but this is the first dolphin of its kind,” said Marcelo Sanchez, director of the university’s biology department.
Researchers have discovered the remains of a dolphin in the Amazon region of Peru. Its mouth is between 10 feet and 11.5 feet long for catching and eating prey.
The species belongs to the Platanistoidea group of dolphins that existed between 24 million and 16 million years ago, scientists said. Furthermore, these species entered the Amazon region due to the abundance of food sources.
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