How big they are: From 5 to 32 feet (1.5 to 10 meters) long, depending on the species Dolphins live in almost every ocean, except most tend to avoid the cold waters in the Arctic and around Antarctica ...

Off the Pacific coast of Canada, scientists have captured something that challenges long‑held assumptions about life in the ...

Biologists discovered killer whales and dolphins working together to hunt salmon, a behavior never before documented in this population.

Discover the key differences between dolphins and whales, including their size, body structure, feeding habits, social ...

The classification within bottlenose dolphins (genus: Tursiops ) is controversial. The prevalent view is that of a single species. To test this hypothesis, osteological, molecular and external ...

New footage shows orcas and dolphins coordinating hunts, hinting at interspecies teamwork to track and catch salmon off ...

IUCN Red List classifies the tucuxi river dolphin as endangered It’s official – all five of the world’s river dolphin species are now threatened with extinction after the IUCN Red List re-classified ...

A new study by WWF into one of the world’s rarest and most threatened species has found two out of three snubfin dolphins in Roebuck Bay near Broome, Western Australia have been injured by boat ...

Four dolphins of a species rarely seen on the Mississippi Coast died this week after they became stranded in the sand of Petit Bois Island. The discovery, reported Monday by The Institute for Marine ...

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade. On ...

Irrawaddy dolphins are rapidly disappearing across Asia. Scientists warn that fishing nets, pollution and habitat loss are ...