If you ask anyone what a dolphin eats, you’ll probably get the same answer: fish! After all, fish are abundant in all the different waters where dolphins live. However, dolphins are opportunistic ...

Many folks in southern coastal areas know about strand feeding, the remarkable fish-catching behavior demonstrated by ...

The Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute (MERR) has reported a rare sighting of bottlenose dolphins near ...

Researchers in Germany found that bottlenose dolphins can detect electric fields underwater — a skill that could help them better hunt down prey deep within the ocean’s depths.

The dolphins use holes in their face left by whiskers that fell out when they were babies to to detect electric fields, which they can thus use to find food.

Bottlenose dolphins possess impressive senses, not least of which is their bat-like ability to echolocate — or blast soundwaves to detect prey and other objects. Dolphins are also known for ...

Three bottlenose dolphins have been freed from a dolphin sanctuary in Indonesia after being rehabilitated from the hard life they left behind in North Bali.

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

Florida dolphins are starving to death because of harmful marine algae blooms, researchers have said. In 2013, 8 percent of the bottlenose dolphins living in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon perished.

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