Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers discovered that Northern resident killer whales hunt by going silent and eavesdropping on dolphin echolocation to ...

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Long before humans built labs, filed patents, or sketched blueprints, animals were already solving the same problems we struggle with today. Nature has spent millions of years refining ways to move ...

Not all dolphins are alike. While most of us are accustomed to seeing the adorable grey bottlenosed dolphin, there are many different types of dolphins in the sea. For example, did you know there was ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Scientists used 3D acoustic technology to learn more about the diving behaviour of beaked whales – this is what they found.

It may sound like a scene from "Nosferatu," but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use ...

While the matchup is now set for Super Bowl LX, the Miami Dolphins are in the first days of a new regime they hope can get them there sooner rather than later. And while fans of the team have every ...

For decades, the U.S. Navy has relied on dolphins for missions no machine can handle. Their echolocation allows them to detect underwater mines buried beneath sand — something man-made sonar struggles ...