Not surprising, considering that killer whales ARE dolphins...
Need a Jurassic Fight Club Match: Megalodon v. Ankylorhiza tiedemani. Brains v. Brawn.
I wonder if the dolphin is one of Linda Grahams’ ancestor? Nah. He’s related to minnow.
This is a wild arse guess. They have no clue whether it was 25-million or 2-million or even 1-million. Their opinion is based on a model of time. We all should be familiar with the accuracy of the models used to predict the Covid-19 garbage and how inaccurate they were. Same is true of the global warming models. Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, parroted the “there will be no snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro by 2020” crap. Where did he get this—from a computer model that was wrong, wrong, wrong.
Killer whales are very large Dolphins. “The killer whale is one of 35 species in the oceanic dolphin family, which first appeared about 11 million years ago.”. So whether they diverged from this dolphin or ran a parallel evolution the fact is that the killer whale (orca) is a very large (larger) dolphin that eats large mammals and fish and swims in today’s oceans.
It’s almost as if intelligent mammals are apex predators.
Gosh, who’da thunkit?
I bet that this creature battled Megaladon as prey and that foreshadows the continuing genetic enmity between dolphins and sharks today.
Or probably not.