Common dolphins are among the ocean's most abundant mammals, but they are living shorter lives in the North Atlantic, ...

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 ...

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 new prehistoric dolphin species has been discovered, and it had excellent high-frequency hearing abilities that were similar to those of dolphins today. The animal lived around 22 million years ago ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Scientists have made the first discovery in 100 years of a new river dolphin species in the waters of the Araguaia river in Brazil’s vast Amazon rainforest. The discovery of the “Inia ...

There are some incredible animals that roamed the earth and its oceans millions of years ago, and an ancient freshwater dolphin species was just discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. The Weather Channel ...

There’s been a 140-year debate about whether two dolphin types most commonly seen in the waters off Southern California are related. Now, researchers affiliated with the National Oceanic and ...

Three rare marine species were recently spotted off the coast of Thailand during a survey, photos show. Photo from the Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation A trio of rare ...

Scientists found stranded dolphins show brain changes and toxins linked to Alzheimer’s during harmful algal blooms.