A nearly two-decade study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa revealed a troubling trend in whale and dolphin strandings. The findings show that the majority of those animals had suffered some ...

A wild bottlenose dolphin in Australia has developed a foraging trick so strange that researchers spent four years making ...

Wild dolphins are known for their complex social lives, but new research shows those social networks can be influenced by human activity. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Dolphins produce a range of vocalizations used for echolocation and communication. These vocalizations vary with social context, environmental conditions, external stimuli, and communication, ...

A new study in Animal Cognition finds that spontaneous object play in bottlenose and Atlantic spotted dolphins is structured ...

Some bottlenose dolphins have learned to use tools to help them catch fish, a clever technique that may be passed on from mother to calf. Scientists in Australia observed dolphins chasing fish into ...

Some Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia use sea sponges as tools to protect their snouts while hunting hidden prey, a behavior known as "sponging." Sponging occurs only ...

Newswise — Using telemetry units in hospitals to monitor patient health is standard practice. Now, a similar approach is proving to be invaluable for dolphins, too. Researchers from Florida Atlantic ...

Dolphins' social lives are being reshaped by human activity, reveals new research. The study of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Florida shows human-linked foraging influences how the aquatic ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Video taken by a local woman of a dolphin playfully approaching her boat, got a lot of positive feedback on social media. Many who watched it described the dolphin as cute or ...

Wild dolphins are known for their complex social lives, but new research shows those social networks can be influenced by human activity. A new study published in Animal Behaviour found that ...