Reggie, a dolphin that gained fame for engaging with swimmers on multiple recent occasions off England's south coast, was "not asking for belly rubs" but also "not trying to drown people," according ...

Marine researchers have uncovered surprising shifts in how dolphins communicate, challenging long held assumptions about their vocal behavior. A recent study published in Frontiers in Marine Science ...

Learn how dolphin behavior is misunderstood, why dolphins appear to be smiling, and why it doesn't mean what it seems to.

A new study shows that dolphins' social networks can be influenced by human activity. The post Are dolphins’ social lives ...

Hawai‘i's beloved spinner dolphins, known as Naiʻa, are a major tourist draw. But a new study shows that we may be loving the ...

When researchers played underwater recordings of pushy males, females that were capable of becoming pregnant swam away from the sounds ...

A new study has investigated hundreds of videos and images taken by the public, tourism operators and scientists to better understand a rarely studied behavior among whales and dolphins—do they ...

Dolphins produce a range of vocalizations used for echolocation and communication. These vocalizations vary with social context, environmental conditions, external stimuli, and communication, ...

Kelly the dolphin gamed her own reward system, then taught the trick to her calf — echoing real tool-use traditions found in ...

People who come in to contact with the dolphin living in waterways within the Lakeshore Estates subdivision near Slidell should do their best to ignore the animal, National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Dolphins enjoy one of the friendliest reputations in the animal world. Movies, aquariums, and viral clips often show them swimming beside boats or helping people in the water. Their intelligence and ...