An easy-enough distinction today - but many (if not most) extinct phocoenids had long snouts like modern bottlenose dolphins! Here's one such example, Piscolithax tedfordi from the upper Miocene of Baja California - collections.

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Inktober 18- Bottle

A pair of bottlenose dolphins for this prompt 😊

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Janjucetus hunderi is an extinct whale from the Oligocene, 25 million years ago. It lacked a baleen system & instead had sharp teeth for ripping apart prey. At 3.5 metres long, it was about the same size a bottlenose dolphin.

(Credit: Gogosardina)

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Ship in a Bottlenose dolphin! A drawing from a year ago during Inktober 2016.
Thought I’d post it here and use it as the cover photo. Hope you like it :)

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Tasty nudity commission for Bottlenose. Yenene always a special character for me. ~

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Had a typo on this cartoon... so I am doing a rerun:) -

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bottlenose dolphin captured mid-air enjoying the beautiful hawaiian sunset

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Killer whales can learn to 'speak' bottlenose dolphin when they're socialized together.

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