We know that the ongoing climate crisis is making life dangerous for marine life — but how exactly do interactions between humans and marine mammals like dolphins fit into this? Have we reached ...
Oct. 2, 2024 — Dolphins are extremely playful, but little is known about how they -- and other marine mammals -- communicate during playtime. New research shows that bottlenose dolphins ...
Dolphins experience what is called "unihemispheric sleep" which helps prevent them from drowning while they snooze. Humans can breathe without even thinking about it, but dolphins have a ...
The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen to ...
The last common ancestor of humans and chimps lived some six million years ago. By comparison cetaceans such as dolphins split off from the rest of the mammal lineage about 55 million years ago ...
Dolphins are important indicators for the health of the rivers they live in, which are also the lifeblood of huge economies and hundreds of millions of people. WE DEPEND ON RIVER DOLPHINS Where ...
But it's uncertain how the virus might affect dolphins or us in the long run. While in humans the virus mostly targets the lungs, in dolphins it tends to attack the brain. "All three animals had ...