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Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 8

Although the skull found in the Anderson’s Bay road yesterday could not be considered “ prehistoric ” unless the adjective were used in reference to local history, it is of much interest to biologists. It has been identified as belonging to a Risso’s dolphin, otherwise known as Grampus Griseus, and the importance of this is that this variety of mammal is more or less confined to Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, and is considered rare even there. Other traces of it, however, have been found here In 1924 a complete skull was dug up at the Musselburgh pumping station, and two years before half a lower jaw was recovered from a 10ft ditch in the Anderson’s Bay road. The conclusion might be drawn that the Peninsula was at one time an island, and that a whole school of these dolphins was stranded on its southern shores. The a<re of the bones may be considered to be'" between 200 and 1,000 years. There was a theory that the famed Pelorus Jack was a Pisso s aolpnin,j iand-this-theory has yat to-ie, refuted.