Kelly the dolphin gamed her own reward system, then taught the trick to her calf — echoing real tool-use traditions found in wild dolphin populations.

Yellow foam, dead fish by the thousands, and dolphins washing ashore with no obvious injuries. What began as a strange ...

Mexico has officially banned dolphin shows after years of heated debate, marking a turning point for animal rights. The move to outlaw marine mammal performances is not just symbolic, it deals ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. — Four bottlenose dolphins born in captivity at the now-shuttered Miami Seaquarium will now live out the rest of their lives in the Florida Keys. They are the very first animals to be ...

Risso's dolphins around the British Isles are part of a single population—genetically distinct from those elsewhere in the ...

Nearly 50 bottlenose dolphins stranded across Cape Cod in what IFAW calls the largest known dolphin stranding in Massachusetts history so far.

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 ...

Most humans who echolocate are blind or vision-impaired and use the skill to go about their daily activities. Some make ...

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 ...

That permanent grin on a dolphin's face has convinced swimmers and tourists for decades that these animals are happy to see them, but mistaking a fixed jaw shape for a friendly invitation has led to ...

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 ...