Amid a year of tremendous loss due to wildfires, Los Angeles’ thunderous applause at another World Series win and unrest over ...

A quick splash, a sleek fin cutting through the surface, and then—gone. Dolphins don’t perform on cue, but when you spot one, even for a moment, it truly does make the ocean feel alive. Some places ...

Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us Denise L. Herzing Univ. Chicago Press (2024) The summer of 1985 marked Denise Herzing’s first time swimming with wild Atlantic ...

A delighted dog had the paw-some encounter with a pod of dolphins when they put on a leaping display for him during a boat trip. Shadow, a 10-month-old red golden retriever, has been watching, ...

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 ...

Bottlenose dolphins are one of the most widely-studied animals in the ocean. Most researchers believe dolphins have advanced intellectual abilities, making them easy to train. We’ve all seen images ...

Researchers analyzed nearly 200 whale-dolphin interactions, and conclude: They sure do seem friendly. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) like the ones pictured here with bottlenose dolphins ...

REEDVILLE, Virginia — Three young male dolphins simultaneously break the water’s surface to breathe — first exhaling, then inhaling — before slipping back under the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. “A ...