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 new study has investigated hundreds of videos and images taken by the public, tourism operators and scientists to better understand a rarely studied behavior among whales and dolphins—do they ...

Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea are spending so much time behind fishing trawlers that the pattern now looks less like opportunism and more like dependence. In some waters off Italy, dolphins ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto RicoSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Stinky the dolphin is lonely, and he’s getting way too frisky with humans. The lone male bottlenose dolphin has been cavorting for months in waters off the ...