Nine northern resident killer whales off Vancouver Island were filmed and acoustically tagged during a summer field season, and the recordings revealed something researchers had not formally ...

Discover how Bubbles, a wild dolphin in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, has been observed chasing fish until they vomit, then eating their regurgitation—a fascinating instance of kleptoparasitism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers discovered that Northern resident killer whales hunt by going silent and eavesdropping on dolphin echolocation to ...

Dolphins have honed the remarkable ability of echolocation, emitting high-frequency clicks and interpreting the echoes that bounce back to guide their navigation. This sophisticated biological sonar ...

For dolphins, the ocean is a world of sound. Their whistles carry social information, helping them communicate and stay connected, while echolocation—rapid-fire clicks—functions like underwater sonar, ...

A project born in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has produced a new method that lets scientists sort through and classify millions of dolphin sounds more rapidly than ever before.

Pakistan's Indus River dolphin population has reached an estimated 1,987. But fishing nets, habitat fragmentation and ...