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 ...

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

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 ...

A team of wildlife experts with the Pacific Whale Foundation snapped a photo of a breaching dolphin flying 15 feet into the air off Maui’s west shore on March 4. According to the National Marine ...

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

Venice has been charmed by a recent visitor: An acrobatic, wild dolphin. The feeling appears to be mutual — he so far refuses to leave — but proximity to humans has put him in danger. The dolphin ...

Venice has been charmed by a recent visitor: An acrobatic, wild dolphin. The feeling appears to be mutual—he so far refuses to leave—but proximity to humans has put him in danger. The dolphin ...

MILAN — Venice has been charmed by a recent visitor: An acrobatic, wild dolphin. The feeling appears to be mutual — he so far refuses to leave — but proximity to humans has put him in danger. The ...