There’s been a 140-year debate about whether two dolphin types most commonly seen in the waters off Southern California are related. Now, researchers affiliated with the National Oceanic and ...

Pink dolphins are an indicator species of the Amazon river, scientists say. Swimming with the piranhas and anacondas below the surface of the Amazon River in Bolivia is a rare species: pink, ...

The Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) is among the poorest understood oceanic mammals. There is a lack of historical and present-day information about population size, habitats, ecology, and ...

Whales are the biggest animal on the planet, dolphins are comparably smaller, but are they all one “big” happy family? They all belong to the Order Cetacea which is the group of sea mammals that ...

Doctoral student Carlos Peredo, who is studying paleontology at George Mason University in Virginia, recently named a new species of dolphin with ancient roots in the Pacific Northwest. Peredo’s ...

A trio of rare marine species was recently spotted off the coast of Thailand, photos show. The elusive sea creatures — two types of dolphin and one sea turtle — were observed during an April survey in ...

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...

Three rare marine species were recently spotted off the coast of Thailand during a survey, photos show. Photo from the Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation A trio of rare ...