Up until recently, it was thought that only two species of bottlenose dolphins existed—the Indo-Pacific and the common bottlenose. But recent DNA tests performed by researchers at Australia’s ...

A new species of ancient dolphin has been discovered, and it may have had a strange and terrifying way of capturing its prey. The fossilized creature, named Aureia rerehua, is thought to have ...

WE DEPEND ON RIVER DOLPHINS Where freshwater dolphin populations are thriving, it is likely that the overall river systems will be flourishing too – as well as all of the communities, companies and ...

A new prehistoric dolphin species has been discovered, and it had excellent high-frequency hearing abilities that were similar to those of dolphins today. The animal lived around 22 million years ...

Highlight today was to see a tucuxi dolphin on São Florêncio rapids’ beach and a pink dolphin just under the São Simão rapids; in addition to the more than 200 bird species already identified by the ...

MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale and dolphin varieties ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced a proposed rule today to list the Atlantic humpback dolphin under the Endangered Species Act, in response to a 2021 petition filed by the ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it would begin a status review to determine whether the highly imperiled Atlantic humpback dolphin should be protected under the ...

The fossil bore no similarities to other dolphin fossils, so it was determined to be from a new genus and species. Nakagawa dated the fossil based on the distribution of the stratum in which it ...

Interspecies adoptions are rare, but it’s not the first time this population of dolphins in French Polynesia has attempted it. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an ...

The organization also moved an Amazon dolphin with a pinkish belly the Tucuxi to its endangered list, meaning that all of the world's freshwater dolphins are now threatened A shark only just ...