If dolphins can play with pufferfish, why couldn’t we do the same? The answer lies in the pufferfish’s defense mechanism. When threatened, they inflate their bodies and release a potent toxin ...

This is one way dolphins die – especially the young ones. Either they go to feed on fish trapped in fishing nets or, worse, ...

Memory is a marker of intelligence. Of all animals, humans possess the most accurate and sophisticated memory. But elephants can recognize as many as 30 traveling companions at a time. They also learn ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

“It’s we humans who are poor at using chemical communication…our sense of smell is pretty bad.” Researchers aren’t entirely sure what’s going on with these Amazon river ...

The dolphin is a creature that has captivated human imagination and reverence for centuries. Known for their intelligence, agility, and social nature, dolphins are often considered spirit animals of ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Residents of Jeju Island have rolled up their sleeves to designate the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin around their island as a "eco legal person" with the same legal status as humans in a move to ...

Octopuses are skilled escape artists, with some even escaping their enclosures and swimming all the way back to the wild. Their jailbreaking is less surprising in light of the fact that they have a ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

A body that was discovered in Alabama nearly 20 years ago was identified as an escaped inmate who had been using a fake name, ...