Search Results for: Dolphin

Open the calendar Use the arrow keys to select a date

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Visit our FAQ page.

441 results
  1. Paleontology

    New dolphin fossil makes a splash

    A newly discovered dolphin fossil provides clues to the evolution of river dolphins in the Americas.

    By Helen Thompson
  2. Paleontology

    New dolphin fossil makes a splash

    A newly discovered dolphin fossil provides clues to the evolution of river dolphins in the Americas.

    By Helen Thompson
  3. Paleontology

    New fossil suggests echolocation evolved early in whales

    A 27-million-year-old whale fossil sheds light on echolocation’s beginnings.

    By Helen Thompson
  4. Environment

    PCB levels still high in Europe’s killer whales, smaller dolphins

    PCBs banned for decades still show up at extremely high concentrations in Europe’s killer whales and other dolphins.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Anthropology

    Humans, birds communicate to collaborate

    Bird species takes hunter-gatherers to honeybees’ nests when called on.

    By Bruce Bower
  6. Paleontology

    Ancient armored fish revises early history of jaws

    The fossil of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern land vertebrates and bony fish originated in a bizarre group of animals called placoderms.

    By Meghan Rosen
  7. Animals

    Eyewitness account of a dolphin birth takes a dark turn

    Scientists witnessed the first wild birth of a bottlenose dolphin — and an attempt at infanticide.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  8. Environment

    Rising dolphin deaths linked to Deepwater Horizon spill

    Lung lesions and other injuries link an extensive die-off of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

    By Beth Mole
  9. Astronomy

    The votes are in: Exoplanets get new names

    Arion, Galileo and Poltergeist are just three winners of a contest to name planets and suns in 20 solar systems.

    By Christopher Crockett
  10. Science & Society

    Reader favorites of 2015

    Science News' online readership sometimes surprised us with their clicking habits this year.

    By Science News Staff
  11. Humans

    Gelada monkeys know their linguistic math

    The vocalizations of gelada monkeys observe a mathematical principle seen in human language, a new study concludes.

    By Cassie Martin
  12. Animals

    ‘The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins’ offers window into cetacean societies

    Dolphins and whales pass cultural knowledge to one another, the authors of a new book argue.

    By Kate Baggaley