First, call 800-9MAMMAL, which is like a dolphin 911, and someone from Whitehead’s group will talk you through keeping the ...

When Sayigh began working with a pod of wild bottlenose dolphins in Florida’s Sarasota Bay in the late 1980s, she observed that these marine mammals shared many characteristics with humans.

Languages: English, Spanish A new subspecies of common bottlenose dolphin found only in the tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been identified by researchers. An analysis of several ...

Florida scientists have reported the first known case of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Though the case dates back to 2022, it’s the ...

A group of bottlenose dolphins was seen “throwing” and killing a juvenile common dolphin off the coast of Wales, video footage shows. Photo from Javier Hernandez, UnSplash A pod of bottlenose ...

New research of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) indicates that they use an “open mouth” facial expression similar to a smile to communicate during social play. This expression ...

Since 2022, students and faculty at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi have tested blubber from 89 common bottlenose dolphins, detecting fentanyl and other drugs in the blubber of 30 of the dolphins.

A common dolphin juvenile has been killed by four bottlenose dolphins in an attack that could become more common as the oceans warm, a cetacean expert has warned. People on a dolphin spotting trip ...

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade.

Tadamichi Morisaka, a dolphin ecologist at Mie University in Tsu, Japan, told Nature.com that playful biting is a common behavior amongst male bottlenose dolphins, who almost always live in pairs ...