These highly social marine mammals have a familiar collective name with a nautical feel.

Somber account of three stranded dolphins rescued near Sandy Hook, highlighting responders' efforts and difficult decisions.

A pod of dolphins lost their way and became trapped in a California inlet near Morro Bay, where one died in the mud before rescuers could reach it. The death of the dolphin, discovered near Cuesta ...

A birder discovered three adolescent common dolphins stranded deep in a Sandy Hook, N.J., marsh on Sunday, Oct. 18 ...

A team of trained responders from the Marine Mammal Center utilize a tarp at Cuesta Inlet in Morro Bay, Calif., to transport a live stranded common dolphin into a response vehicle prior to being ...

Dolphins are often portrayed as playful, intelligent and unusually friendly marine animals, but their complex social lives ...

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Dolphins have learned to plug the holes in coral outcrops with sponges to prevent fish from swimming to safety, the BBC Blue ...

Washington, DC—A shocking new report released today reveals that more than 100,000 dolphins, small whales and porpoises (small cetaceans) are slaughtered globally in hunts each year—many to be used as ...

A wild bottlenose dolphin in Australia has developed a foraging trick so strange that researchers spent four years making sure their eyes were not deceiving them. What Bubbles does to a school of ...

Source: safaritravelplus, via Wikimedia Commons. It’s been nearly 60 years since scientists first described dolphins’ use of signature whistles. These are individually distinctive whistles used by ...

Echo, one of four dolphins transferred to Oceanogràfic València from Marineland Canada, died on Wednesday, the Spanish facility said.