Named Pebanista yacuruna after a mythical Amazonian people, this ancient dolphin’s closest living relatives can be found ...

The name honours a mythical aquatic people – the Yacuruna ... Based on the small size of the ancient dolphin’s eye sockets and its large teeth, he says P. yacuruna was probably a predator ...

seated on a dolphin. Experts believe the statue is likely a Roman imagining of the Greek mythical figures created during the second century A.D., when Perga was under Roman rule. Though its ...