Due to her impaired echolocation, Dagny the dolphin was unable to navigate Gulf waters following Hurricane Michael, leaving her stranded on a Biloxi beach.

The heart-pounding rescue, led by the Dolphin Research Center and Florida Fish and Wildlife, underscores the growing danger marine mammals face from discarded fishing gear in Florida’s waters.

The Dolphin Research Center is the only facility authorized to handle manatee rescues throughout the Florida Keys, a more than 100-mile stretch of island chain. The team is on call around the clock.

Dolphin moms use ‘baby talk’ with their calves, rare among non-human species. A study three decades in the making reveals common bottlenose dolphins, which have complex communication, share a ...

BAHRAICH, (IANS) – The Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS) will soon be developed as the second research center of the National Aquatic Animal (Gangetic dolphin) in India. The aim is to set up ...

Researchers believe one male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin is responsible for annual attacks on beachgoers in the Fukui prefecture of Japan, and he's doing it because he's lonely.

Tadamichi Morisaka, a researcher at the Cetacean Research Center at Japan's Mie University, who has seen photographs, told NHK, Japan, "It's reasonable to assume that they're the same individual." ...

The dolphin's solitude, however, is trickier to explain. Why dolphins leave their pods in general — and whether this behavior could be considered "unusual" — is a mystery, Morisaka said.

He was the 18th dolphin victim since 21 July and the second in as many days. In the past three years, 48 people in the area have suffered dolphin bites, NHK said, leaving some with broken bones.

TOKYO — A single bottlenose dolphin is believed to be behind a series of attacks on swimmers at a Japanese seaside town — possibly out of loneliness. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported on Aug ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Florida. Communications Biology , 2024; 7 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06173-x Cite This Page : ...