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Common bottlenose dolphin

Photo by KeMiCo
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Field Notes

Description:

Found washed up on a beach in W.crete
size is about 30-40cm, very brittle and light, also it looks quite porous but i guess the brittleness and porous appearance can be from seawater corrosion.

Species ID Suggestions

Common bottlenose dolphin skull

Tursiops truncatus

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DespinaTsafetopoulou
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Comments (3)
DespinaTsafetopoulou
In the first pic you see the underside of the skull, so yes, its the other side of the blow hole... Amazing find, don't you think? (Law in Greece, forbids to leave the corpses of beached cetaceans in open view, so they are removed and burried asap...So to find a dolphin skull just like that, it's extremely rare...)
KeMiCo
the 2 holes in the first picture, would those be the other side of the blowhole?
DespinaTsafetopoulou
Dear @Photo Kemi, that's an amazing find! Would you please consider to add this wonderfull spotting in the Greek Biodiversity mission? Thank you in advance, and welcome to Project Noah! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7964599

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Biodiversity of Greece (Hellas)
Mission
Identifying Animals Through Osteology
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PublishedJune 16, 2014

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