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Large Dolphin from Oligocene Epoch was Fast-Swimming Apex Predator Paleontologists have found and described the first nearly complete skeleton of Ankylorhiza tiedemani, an extinct large dolphin that lived about 24 million years ago (Oligocene epoch). Life restoration of a pod of Ankylorhiza tiedemani. Image credit: Robert Boessenecker. With a body …

A team of researchers from Australia, Austria, Finland and UK has found that swimming, aerobics, racquet sports (badminton, tennis and squash) and cycling offer life saving benefits compared to running and soccer. They also found that death from cardiovascular disease was reduced in people who participated in swimming, racquet sports …

Everyone knows something about the “seacows” of the world: manatees. They are herbivores, they are really really big, they like shallow, warm water, they hang out in Florida in the winters. Wait, what?? As soon as I figured that last part out, I was on a mission to get in …