Experts want urgent action on rare N.Zealand 'hobbit' dolphinMarine scientists have urged New Zealand to step up efforts to save the world's rarest dolphin, saying only a few dozen Maui's dolphins remain and immediate action is needed to prevent their extinction.
400 dolphins dead on Peru beachesThe bodies of around 400 dolphins washed up on beaches in northern Peru last month, baffling authorities who are so far mystified as to the cause.
05 February 2014
Fugitive campaigner hails Japan anti-dolphin hunt messagesFugitive eco-activist Paul Watson said Monday he hoped anti-dolphin hunting comments like those by US ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, would put pressure on Tokyo to halt the practice.
20 January 2014
New dolphin species discovered off north AustraliaResearchers have identified a new humpback dolphin species off northern Australia, using genetic mapping to single out an animal not previously known to science.
31 October 2013
Dolphins inspire rescue radar device: studyBritish engineers said Wednesday they had taken inspiration from dolphins for a new type of radar device that could easily track miners trapped underground or skiers buried in an avalanche.
Japan dolphin-killing town to open marine parkThe Japanese town made infamous by the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove", will open a marine mammal park where visitors can swim with dolphins, but will not end its annual slaughter.
Dolphins remember friends' whistles for decades: study Bottlenose dolphins can remember each other's signature whistles for more than 20 years, a study said Wednesday -- the longest social memory ever observed in an animal.
07 August 2013
Pressure on New Zealand to save world's rarest dolphinNew Zealand is facing pressure to save the world's rarest dolphin at an international scientific meeting underway this week in what conservationists say is a test of the nation's "clean, green" credentials.
10 June 2013
S. Korea to release dolphin back into wild A 13-year-old dolphin was Saturday being transported to an ocean pen off a South Korean island for training to prepare it for release back into the wild after four years in a Seoul zoo.