A wildlife photographer spotted something strange clinging to a Risso's dolphin off the Devon coast, and marine scientists say the image reveals far more than an unusual encounter between two animals.

Watch the video to see why these animals became part of the U.S. Navy operations in the first place. For decades, the Na ...

Dolphins are among the smartest animals on Earth, and their intelligence shows up in surprising ways. One of their most ...

A wild bottlenose dolphin in Australia has developed a foraging trick so strange that researchers spent four years making ...

A new study in Animal Cognition finds that spontaneous object play in bottlenose and Atlantic spotted dolphins is structured ...

Knowing the age of an animal reveals key information about how long it lives and when it reproduces. But figuring out the age of wild animals is not easy, especially for dolphins. Until recently, ...

Q. I grew up (many years ago) on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi and was always excited when we saw porpoises in the water off the ...

Pakistan Government has created a 250-mile lifeline for endangered Indus River dolphins, but there is more to be done.

Wild dolphins are known for their complex social lives, but new research shows those social networks can be influenced by human activity. A new study published in Animal Behaviour found that ...

A pod of dolphins lost their way and became trapped in a California inlet near Morro Bay, where one died in the mud before ...

Dolphin breeding is to be banned in the Netherlands within two years, and imports of the animals will be restricted. Junior ...

The wild dolphins were foraging before they ended up on the shore.