Rome, the Eternal City, is revered for its history, art, culture, and food. Yet, few people know that less than an hour away, where the Tiber River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea, there’s something ...

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), which live in temperate and tropical waters worldwide, including the African coasts, play with other dolphins in the first weeks of life.

Wild bottlenose dolphins typically live between 30 and 50 years. To use these speckles to estimate age, Yagi created a new system that quantifies the density of speckles on various parts of the body.

This dolphin was tiny, only 3 or 4 feet long. Today's bottlenose dolphins are twice as big as the toothless dolphin. The dwarf dolphin, which somewhat resembles its modern-day cousins, was a ...

Three bottlenose dolphins that were rescued from a resort hotel in Indonesia in 2019 are now swimming free — after they were rehabilitated by a specialized animal sanctuary. The dolphin trio ...

Dolphins are extremely playful, but little is known about how they -- and other marine mammals -- communicate during playtime. New research shows that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) use ...

New research of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) indicates that they use an “open mouth” facial expression similar to a smile to communicate during social play.

As the order’s snout shape continued to evolve, it eventually settled into the optimum design found on a modern bottlenose dolphin.. The skull came from the Wando River, which now runs past ...

Bottlenose dolphins smile at each other when they play – new study reveals how and why. Elisabetta Palagi, University of Pisa. Tue, December 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM UTC. 5 min read.

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), which live in temperate and tropical waters worldwide, including the African coasts, play with other dolphins in the first weeks of life.