Discovery of New Species of dolphin announced:
The discovery of a new species of dolphin has been announced recently.
The new species is being called the Snub Fin Dolphin (scientific name
Orcaella breveriroistris) and it's population exists off the far north
west coast of Australia. They were actually found there quite a long time
ago but were believed (at the time) to be just a subpopulation of another
species of dolphin called the Irrawaddy Dolphin. However, when scientists
obtained skin samples from this population and analyzed them it was
discovered that these were an entirely new species of dolphin that have been
named and reported as a unique and individual population.See photos below.
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