New research reveals an endearing habit amongst bottlenose dolphins that crops up during playtime—one that we humans display too. Here’s what the study found. Dolphins are beloved amongst researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How big they are: From 5 to 32 feet (1.5 to 10 meters) long, depending on the species Dolphins live in almost every ocean, except ...

Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge.

Bottlenose dolphins are one of the most widely-studied animals in the ocean. Most researchers believe dolphins have advanced intellectual abilities, making them easy to train. We’ve all seen images ...

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade. On ...

The Indianapolis Zoo has welcomed five new bottlenose dolphins, Cayman, Cobalt, Denise, Gemini, and Panama, who are currently ...

About 51,000 bottlenose dolphins—the most common species off the Texas coast—are frolicking in the northern Gulf as you read this. Occasionally, though, one of them ends up on land. The Texas Marine ...

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