Dolphin Awareness Month is an opportunity to learn more about these well-known marine mammals and the role they play in ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turns out dolphins are just marine mammal mamma's boys — and girls. Their in-group preference makes them hang flipper-to-flipper with "mommy" for much longer than biologists had assumed, and that ...