A “man of science” in 19 century New Zealand, Hector was the first person to give the dolphin a species name back in 1873, dubbing it Electra clancula, though this would go on to change after ...

Irrawaddy dolphins are known for spitting water out of their mouths and helping humans catch fish. They are at risk ... two Irrawaddy dolphin parents. Both species are capable of alloparenting ...

Only recently were a pair of Smithsonian paleontologists able to trace its evolutionary origins, by X-ray scanning the fossil and building a digital model, finding that it was a previously undescribed ...

They feed on a wide variety of nearshore fish species, favoring mullet. This often puts them in direct conflict with human activities in these same areas. The major threat to the dolphins is bycatch ...

dolphins and wolves? Two fishy-looking animals and a four-legged, furry one. First we need to find the ancestral line they all came from. For this, we can go to the fossil record. Fish appear in ...

was covered by an ocean teeming with prehistoric fish, sharks, dolphins, mussels and sea urchins. Among them were two species of dolphins that scientists have recently been able to identify.

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected the Dolphin and Union caribou today as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This specific population of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer ...