Scientists have found microplastics in the air exhaled by wild dolphins, suggesting that these tiny particles are not just swallowed but also breathed in by marine mammals. This is the first ...

Laela Sayigh is getting ready to go see some old friends. Sayigh is a senior research specialist in the biology department at ...

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet — on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to be in the oceans alone. Across the globe, ...

A fishing community in southern Brazil has an unusual ally: wild dolphins. Accounts of people and dolphins working together to hunt fish go back millennia, from the time of the Roman Empire near what ...

The relationship between whales and dolphins has long been shrouded in mystery. But, new research reveals that - despite their vast difference in size - these marine mammals often enjoy playful ...

Dolphins have long proved that they possess high levels of intelligence through their communication and socialization skills. But recent discoveries by marine biologists highlight a previously unknown ...

Learn more about the tentative ties between brain degeneration and beaching in dolphins, which could become more and more ...

Many hands make light work. Or, in the case of cooperative interspecies foraging in southern Brazil, flippers and hands catch more fish together. The tandem hunting practiced by Lahille’s bottlenose ...

Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico have traces of human medications – including powerful opioids, muscle relaxants, and sedatives – in their fat, according to a new study that is sounding the alarm on ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A team of scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Health and Stranding lab (UHHSL) are sounding the alarm for an infectious disease recently discovered in Hawaii ...