Arktocara ("Platanista gangetica") which inhabits the tropics, making it its closest living relative. Allodelphinidae also included the genera "Allodelphis", "Goedertius", "Ninjadelphis", and "Zarhinocetus". Its discovery further reinforces the theory that the Platanistoidea river dolphins originated in the oceans. Of the characteristics it shared with other platanistoids was a cylindrical projection of the periotic bone in the ear, deeply grooved rostral sutures on the beak, the widening of the cranium, a depression on the roof of the orbit in the eye socket, a smaller exposed palatine bone in the roof of the mouth, an elongated and convex spine in the tympanic bulla
Endangered Species (1982 film) Endangered Species (1982 film) Endangered Species is a 1982 science fiction film starring Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Peter Coyote and Hoyt Axton, that was directed and co-written by Alan Rudolph. Thriller about a New York ex-cop and a female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out visiting the town with his tomboy daughter. At first he tries to stay out of the case but finds himself involved after the mysterious death of his friend Joe Hiatt, the editor of