Fishers in Brazil partner with Lahille's bottlenose dolphins to catch mullet more efficiently. Dolphins herd fish and signal when to cast nets, benefiting both species. Collaborative fishing boosts ...

Microplastic pollution has contaminated virtually every part of the globe, and it's even turning up in breath samples taken from dolphins. A new study published in the journal PLOS One found that ...

Two decades after being rescued from a Speedo, Scrappy the dolphin is still swimming. His story shows why marine conservation ...

Wild dolphins are known for their complex social lives, but new research shows those social networks can be influenced by human activity. A new study published in Animal Behaviour found that ...

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 ...

A new study suggests tourism and human activity off Hawaii Island may be contributing to unexpectedly low calf numbers in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Moreton Bay is a small patch of ocean bounded ...

A new study has found that spinner dolphin calves make up only 9% of the spinner dolphin population off Hawaiʻi Island, which ...

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 ...