Common dolphin Common dolphin The common dolphin is the name given to two species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus. Taxonomists and cetologists usually recognise two species — the short-beaked common dolphin, which retains the systematic name "Delphinus delphis", and the long-beaked common dolphin "D. capensis". Despite its name, the common dolphin is not the dolphin of popular imagination; that distinction belongs to the bottlenose dolphin (genus "Tursiops") due to its widespread use in marine parks and its appearance in the television series "Flipper". However, this dolphin was the most frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Greece and
The Creature from the Pit The Creature from the Pit The Creature from the Pit is the third serial of the 17th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 27 October to 17 November 1979. It is the first serial made to feature David Brierley as the voice of K9. The serial is set on the planet Chloris. In the serial, Lady Adrasta (Myra Frances) imprisons the Tythonian ambassador Erato in a pit for fifteen years in order to maintain her control over the planet's limited metal supply. The alien time