Algal bloom triggered by sewage discharges could be causing in dolphins the same form of brain degeneration seen in humans with Alzheimer’s disease, scientists warned in a new study. Scientists found ...

Socializing among dolphins is divided by sex. Female dolphins form fluid bonds with other females based on raising offspring ...

The study revealed that 29% of all strandings were linked to anthropogenic (human-caused) trauma. Vessel strikes were a ...

Male bottlenose dolphins that form friendships age more slowly than loners, new research shows. Dolphins are social creatures that, like all of us, get old. Signs of aging in dolphins include less ...

Research shows male dolphins with strong friendships age more slowly. Social bonds reduce stress and protect health at the ...

Stories about dolphins move fast. Someone spots a shark, dolphins show up, and the moment quickly becomes something bigger than it was. Friends repeat it. Strangers add their own details. Before long, ...

From land-borne pathogens to high-speed vessel strikes, Pacific whales and dolphins are caught in a "perfect storm" where ...

A fishing community in southern Brazil has an unusual ally: wild dolphins. Accounts of people and dolphins working together to hunt fish go back millennia, from the time of the Roman Empire near what ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists are sounding an alarm after three striped dolphins stranded on east Oʻahu in June tested positive for a dangerous infection. The dolphins ...

WASHINGTON — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk. A study published Monday found that ...

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