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 ...

For over 140 years, traditional fishers in Laguna, Brazil, have hunted for fish as they work together with local Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins. In a rare case of mutualism between humans and wild ...

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, ...

C15:0 may be the first essential fatty acid discovered in 90 years, and it owes its discovery to an unlikely source.

Scientists are studying if toxins from blue-green algae cause dementia-like symptoms in stranded dolphins. Researchers found high levels of a neurotoxin in the brains of dolphins stranded during algae ...

Researchers have found that a group of chemicals known as PFAS can be transferred from mother dolphins to their nursing ...

Dolphins have long fascinated scientists and animal lovers alike, not just for their intelligence, but for the many ways they seem to mirror human behaviour. They form deep friendships, play for fun, ...

Bottlenose dolphins usually live in small to medium-sized groups in coastal and open-sea waters, but every once in a while, a dolphin might leave its pod behind, flock to coastal areas and approach ...

A dolphin returning to a historic habitat necessitates management of people, not wildlife, researchers monitoring solitary bottlenose dolphin in Venice say Bottlenose dolphins usually live in small to ...