Australia found new dolphins in the Melbourne region

Australian scientists on September 15 revealed that they have discovered dolphins that live off the city of Melbourne, Victoria, belonging to a different species from other dolphins in the world. .

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At first, researchers thought that dolphins were frolicking in Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes area, in about 150 animals, as one of the two recognized big nose dolphin species.

However, Dr. Kate Charlton-Robb, of Monash University, found that these individuals are completely different by comparing skulls, DNA patterns and natural traits with discovered dolphins. in the early 20th century.

She named the dolphin Tursiops australis , although they are commonly known as the Burrunan dolphin , an Australian Aboriginal name meaning a large marine fish of the dolphin.

In a paper published in PLoS One, Charlton-Robb stressed that this is an incredibly interesting finding because only three new dolphin species have been officially described and recognized since the end. 19th century.

What makes this discovery even more surprising is that the dolphin lives right next to humans, with only two dolphin populations residing in Port Phillip Bay and Gippsland Lakes in Victoria.

It is known that this study is based in part on analyzing dolphin skulls preserved at museums over the past century, especially skull samples at the Victoria Museum.