Smaller coastal dolphins survive shark attacks at far higher rates than their larger relatives, but they also carry the scars to prove they are targeted more often. A global synthesis of shark bite ...

Dolphins have captivated human imagination for thousands of years — and for good reason. These sleek, intelligent marine mammals are far more complex, surprising, and frankly mind-blowing than most ...

Staff at the Lady Elliott Island Eco Resort off the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia are well acquainted with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, DC—The National Marine Fisheries Service today protected rare Taiwanese humpback dolphins, listing the species as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. The decision comes in ...

Up until recently, it was thought that only two species of bottlenose dolphins existed—the Indo-Pacific and the common bottlenose. But recent DNA tests performed by researchers at Australia’s ...

Citizen scientist photographs incredible encounter with a Risso’s dolphin and an octopus just off the coast of Devon ...

Sometimes it takes an all hands on deck approach to protect and save distressed wildlife in Southwest Florida, whether it's ...