High levels of BMAA (β-methylamino-L-alanine), a neurotoxin produced by cyanobacterial blooms, and beta-amyloid plaques, a hallmark in human beings of...
Toothed whales — apex predators varying in size from 40-kg porpoises to 50-ton sperm whales — use narrow beams of high intensity sound to echolocate...
A new paper published in the journal Biology Letters describes how tail walking was learned by a single bottlenose dolphin and then copied by other dolphins...
A new species of extinct dwarf dolphin that lived about 30 million years ago (Oligocene epoch) and possessed adaptations for suction feeding has been identified...
In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of U.S. researchers examined the diets of three different dolphin species (the common bottlenose...
A fossil stored in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History for several decades has been identified as a new species of ancient...
The fossil of a freshwater river dolphin that lived 5.8 – 6.1 million years ago has been found in Panama.
Life reconstruction of Isthminia panamensis,...
In a 6.5 year study, marine biologists led by Dr Elizabeth Murdoch Titcomb from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University...
According to a new study reported in the journal Evolutionary Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) only colonized the Mediterranean after...
Sci-News.com compiles an annual list of the top 20 new species of animals, plants and insects found in the past twelve months.
1. Araguaian boto (Inia...
Bottlenose dolphins are magnetoreceptive animals, says new research reported in the journal Naturwissenschaften.
A group of bottlenose dolphins in Xcaret,...
Peruvian and European paleontologists have described a new fossil species of dolphin that lived in what is now Peru during the Miocene period, about 16...
Scientists from Brazil and the United Kingdom have described a new species of true river dolphin from the Araguaia River basin, the first such discovery...
Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of humpback dolphin in the waters off northern Australia.
A newly identified...
According to marine biologist Dr Jason Bruck of the University of Chicago’s Institute for Mind and Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)...
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) can use copying of signature whistles as a way of addressing or labeling animals on an individual basis, according...
A new study, which examines how dolphins might process their sonar signals, could provide a new system for man-made sonar to detect targets, such as sea...
An international team of researchers has found that bottlenose dolphins from Shark Bay, Western Australia, form complex male alliances in an open social...
A researcher in the School of Biological Sciences, Kate Charlton-Robb, unearthed the remarkable findings, showing that coastal dolphins in southern Australia...
