The snaggletoothed cetacean used teeth projected from its snout to stun prey, much like modern sawfish do. By Jack Tamisiea The waters off New Zealand 25 million years ago were home to early baleen ...

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The sick dolphin washed up on Saturday. A rescue team rushed to Long Beach and found the young male bottlenose lying on the sand. They brought it to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport ...

This controversial global industry claims that dolphins help treat those with autism and other disorders. Even some of its proponents say there’s no science behind it. Dolphin-assisted therapy ...

The Amazon river dolphin, or boto, is an integral feature of the rainforest’s biodiversity and culture, and is central to several Indigenous tales. Even though the dolphin isn’t fished for human ...

Paleontologists discovered a fossilized skull of a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon, which lived around 16 million years ago and is considered the ...

A group of men fishing off the north coast of New Zealand were in for a surprise when a dolphin weighing more than 600 pounds appeared to fall out of the sky and crashed onto their small boat. Dean ...

Dolphins are generally regarded as some of the smartest creatures on the planet. Research has shown they can cooperate, teach each other new skills, and even recognize themselves in a mirror. For ...