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 ...

India's longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands of dolphins. But their survival is under threat.But these aren't like the ones found in oceans. They don't leap out of the water ...

Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...

PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Another newborn Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin has been sighted, raising the number of newborn dolphin calves in Cambodia to six so far this year, the Ministry of Agriculture ...

MAEBASHI—Two fossils found by a lifelong collector of natural objects represent a new species of the Delphinidae family, whose offspring include the killer whale and dolphin varieties ...

A pod of dolphins delighted onlookers as they happily played for about an hour around their boat. Adam Case of Woolverstone ...

Researchers said they named the new species “karichigara” after the Tagalaka phrase “‘Kari Chigara Changgala,’ meaning ...

A new study by WWF into one of the world’s rarest and most threatened species has found two out of three snubfin dolphins in Roebuck Bay near Broome, Western Australia have been injured by boat ...

Dolphins are generally social and playful marine mammals and often travel in groups, or pods. The most common species near Florida’s Gulf Coast are bottle-nosed dolphins, according to the ...

First responders said the dolphin's flesh appeared to have been 'butchered' when its carved carcass washed up on a Jersey ...

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 ...