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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study of Sarasota Bay bottlenose dolphins finds human-linked foraging and red tide events influence how dolphins associate with one another Brookfield, Ill. – Wild dolphins are known for their complex ...

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 ...