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Listening offers a clearer picture of India’s hidden finless porpoises

The Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is one of India’s smallest cetaceans, inhabits turbid coastal waters, and lacks a dorsal fin — all of which make it a difficult species for resear...

Dolphins Taunt Pufferfish For This One Hilarious Reason

Our family bathrooms may not be dedicated to them the way that they were in the ’90s, but dolphins are still a really popular mammal. I mean, of course they are, look at their wee...

Dolphin mother and calf observed using shells to catch fish in Australia

A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia have a documented history of using an unusual tool to help them catch fish: Large, empty snail shells. For the firs...

Residents kept reporting Dolphins. Underwater microphones revealed their visits

Scientists from Kyoto University used underwater microphones to monitor dolphins in two bays along Japan's Sea of Japan coast. They found dolphin sounds only about once every 10 da...

Sound Reveals Dolphins’ Social and Hunting Spots

Researchers have discovered new ways in which coastal dolphins use sound to hunt and socialize along Florida’s Atlantic coast.

Meet the Constellations: Delphinus, the Dolphin

Delphinus, the constellation looks just like a tiny Dolphin that's splashing its way through the sky amidst other famous summer sights. The post Meet the Constellations: Delphinus,...

Dolphin Carries Dead Calf Among Pod of Dolphins

A mother dolphin was spotted carrying the dead body of her two-week-old calf south of Perth, Australia.

Scientists Film Dolphins Using Seashells As Hunting Tools

A dolphin rises from the water carrying an empty seashell in its jaws, but the shell is not empty for long. Inside, a trapped fish is about to become dinner. An unusual hunting str...

Risk-taking dolphins spend more time with one another

Florida dolphins that make riskier decisions to find food stick together The post Risk-taking dolphins spend more time with one another appeared first on The Wildlife Society.

Dolphins’ Breath Could Show How Healthy They Are

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking, non-invasive method to track pathogens in dolphins by analyzing breath expelled through their blowholes.

Dolphins Filmed Hunting With Shells – And Possibly Passing The Skill to Their Offspring

"The second I saw that shell in the air, I immediately knew what was happening."ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't m...

Lucky Sighting Captures Dolphins Using Empty Shells to Hunt Fish, a Rarely Seen Skill 

Learn how some bottlenose dolphins in Australia skillfully use shells to catch and eat fish, a rare behavior recently observed in the wild. 

Video: Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Mourning

Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.

MERR Institute monitors rare dolphins off Delmarva coast

The MERR Institute is monitoring two rare dolphins seen off the coast, including what the nonprofit believes to be a leucistic juvenile dolphin and an albino calf.

Watch spectacular moment graceful dolphin leaps high out of the water under Forth Bridges wowing sailors

A dolphin wowed sailors in the Firth of Forth as it repeatedly leapt out of the water beside them.

Dolphins use tools to obtain fish in rare activity caught on camera 

Rare dolphin activity was observed off the coast of Australia, verifying the results of a recently published study. The footage was captured by researchers at the University of t...

Scientists Capture World-First Footage of Dolphins Using Seashells to Catch Fish

Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of dolphins using seashells to catch fish, with evidence suggesting that calves may learn the technique from their mothers. [Read M...

Supergroup humback whale sightings on the increase in South Africa

Together with dolphins, they are one of at least 37 species of marine mammals that can be found in South African waters.

Sponge Foraging in Dolphins Does Something Unique to Their Genes

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Grieving dolphin’s ‘mourning ritual’ captured on video after she lost another newborn

Video of dolphin carrying its dead newborn through the Indian Ocean reveals a deep and old 'mourning ritual'

Fraggle, a grieving mother dolphin, carried her deceased calf for six days, a poignant testament to her profound maternal love. Captured by drone footage in the Indian Ocean, this...

Fungie DNA reveals dolphin's mixed ancestry

A study has found that Fungie, once Ireland's best-known dolphin, had ties to both the Shannon Estuary bottlenose dolphins and a much larger offshore population.