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Bottlenose Dolphins
Payton McCallister
Origin
Common name: Bottle nose dolphin
Meaning: a small gregarious toothed whale that typically has a beak like snout and a curved fin on the back.
Who named it: Originated in Greece
Why: Because in Greek it meant "fish with womb"
Where: Earliest specices of dolphins were discovered in japan as fossils
When: Originated 8-13 million years ago
It is generally believed that all marine mammals, including dolphins, evolved from land based ancestors around 50-60 million years ago
Evolutionary History
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