Wild dolphins use sea sponges as tools to hunt safely, revealing how animal culture survives despite hidden sensory costs.

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade. On ...

A team of researchers recently found a solitary dolphin in the Baltic Sea. It could very well be a bit of a sad story, since the dolphin appeared to be talking to itself in the absence of other ...

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A Chicago zoo has a pretty big flipping reason to be excited! Brookfield Zoo Chicago welcomed its first bottlenose dolphin calf since 2014 when a 38-year-old bottlenose dolphin named Allie gave birth, ...

A new study draws fresh attention to how whales and dolphins meet and mingle during their journeys. Researchers investigated hundreds of public, tourist, and scientific videos and images, including ...

In September 2019, a male bottlenose dolphin began hanging out in Denmark’s Svendborgsund channel. Onlookers thought his behavior was odd, because no other bottlenose dolphins had been reported in ...

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BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Brookfield Zoo Chicago has announced the sudden death of a four-day old bottlenose dolphin. A dolphin named Allie gave birth early Saturday morning, zoo officials said. The ...

About 51,000 bottlenose dolphins—the most common species off the Texas coast—are frolicking in the northern Gulf as you read this. Occasionally, though, one of them ends up on land. The Texas Marine ...