A quick splash, a sleek fin cutting through the surface, and then—gone. Dolphins don’t perform on cue, but when you spot one, even for a moment, it truly does make the ocean feel alive. Some places ...

Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as Greek mythology. But it wasn’t until the 1960s that methodical research into dolphin communication began.

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google's DolphinGemma AI model aims to decipher and predict patterns in dolphin sounds for better understanding of their ...

Some Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia use sea sponges as tools to protect their snouts while hunting hidden prey, a behavior known as “sponging.” Sponging occurs only ...