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 ...

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The dolphin was released back to the ocean in hope he will rejoin his pod. As Louisiana residents began to survey the damage left by Hurricane Ida, they saw something they did not expect: a bottlenose ...

A 6-foot bottlenose dolphin that swam into a remote creek along the Delaware Bay and remained there for a week died Thursday morning during a rescue attempt, officials said. The Marine Mammal ...

A bottlenose dolphin found on Deal’s beach Sunday evening had numerous shark bites all over its body and was euthanized, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said Tuesday. A beachgoer reported the ...

New research reveals an endearing habit amongst bottlenose dolphins that crops up during playtime—one that we humans display too. Here’s what the study found. Dolphins are beloved amongst researchers ...

A spate of dolphin attacks on swimmers in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture is being blamed on one bottlenose dolphin, who researchers believe may be particularly lonely, having been separated from a pod.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...