Since June 2025, the lone bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Mimmo has been spotted numerous times, including right by San Marco ...

Bottlenose dolphins usually live in small to medium-sized groups in coastal and open-sea waters, but every once in a while, a ...

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 ...

Researchers monitoring solitary bottlenose dolphin in Venice say its survival depends on management of people Usually, ...

Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's hard to believe there are still places ...

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Stenella attenuata (Pantropical spotted dolphin) Even though eight of the nine cetacean species are listed as "Least Concern" ...

A rare sighting of two deep-ocean dolphin species off the coast of Port Macquarie has left both marine experts and wildlife photographers buzzing. On a recent birdwatching tour, two dolphins were ...