At least 38 dead dolphins have been washed ashore on the island of Mauritius in the aftermath of a massive oil leak of a Japanese ship. The die-off has not yet been directly linked to the game, and officials are still investigating the causes of death, Reuters reports. The dolphins …
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Scientists have identified an almost complete skeleton of a 4.8-meter-long dolphin ancestor that lived in what is now South Carolina during the Oligocene epoch about 25 million years ago. This ‘dolphin’ was the first known echolocation apex predator: in addition to its large size, it would have had large, tusk-like …
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Shark Bay Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Western Australia have an unusual way of obtaining food. They divide the fish into a large empty marine gastropod shell. They then bring the shell and the captured fish to the surface, and shake it upside down. Sip! go to the fish, straight to …
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