The Bottlenose Dolphin

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For my evolution essay i chose to do the bottlenose dolphin, i chose to do this mamle because this dolphin is my favorite underwater animal. I also chose the bottlenose dolphin because i've heard that they are highly intelligent and i thought that there's probably cool things i don't know about them that i can learn and write about now.

Dolphins were smaller and believed to eat smaller fish and other organisms in the ocean. Dolphins were also believed to evolve from whales, ancestors to the hoofed land animals, similar to wolves and toed ungulate. About 95 Million years ago the dolphin was evolved then over the next 30 million years Mesonix began to become more adapted to life in the water

The Bottlenose dolphin was named because of there

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