We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

Dolphins are world famous for their playful, acrobating leaps out of the water. While it might seem like pure fun to us, there’s more to these impressive jumps than meets the eye. Dolphins leap to ...

Dolly and Donna, two dolphins at the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany, appear to be able to sense electric fields — an ability that might help them detect prey buried in sand or enhance their navigation.

Mammalian altruism is extremely rare, but may have occurred when a pod of dolphins escorted a lost humpback whale from the ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit.

In water, a dolphin's body is buoyant, supported by the surrounding liquid. On land, however, their bodies are not designed to bear their own weight, leading to physical stress and even potential ...

The higher water temperatures in Lake Tefé were at least in part caused by the ongoing drought. At one point during the week of the mass dolphin casualties, temperatures hit as high as 39.1 ...

The dolphins stayed with the boat for about 15 minutes, cutting through the water on the side and in front of the small boat. “Hands down the most incredible experience of my life,” Coyne said.

Scientists say government red tape is keeping them from trying to figure out why more dolphins are migrating to where they don't belong and dying because of it. The Institute for Marine Mammal ...