Lowcountry Estuarine dolphins recently named a new species, the Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus). New science alert! You all may be familiar with common bottlenose dolphins, known by ...

Scientists determined that bottlenose dolphins found close to the shore off South Carolina and much of the east coast are a different species than those living in deeper water, according to a study ...

A new species of ancient dolphin has been discovered, and it may have had a strange and terrifying way of capturing its prey. The fossilized creature, named Aureia rerehua, is thought to have lived ...

A new prehistoric dolphin species has been discovered, and it had excellent high-frequency hearing abilities that were similar to those of dolphins today. The animal lived around 22 million years ago ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rare, endangered baby dolphin has been spotted swimming with members of a different species in Cambodia, leaving scientists puzzled. The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) calf was likely ...