Monitoring the sounds of an endangered dolphin species may provide clues to ensuring their survival, a new University of ...

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 ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Laela Sayigh is a Senior Research Specialist on Cetacean ...

Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa will stop sourcing wild dolphins for its aquarium and suspending its captive breeding ...

Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge. The dolphin isn’t playing; it’s using the sponge as a diving mask: a clear ...