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A new delphinarium has opened in Almaty.

• 26 мая 2015, 22:14

Environmentalists are threatening to call a boycott of New Zealand's billion-dollar seafood export industry .

• 03 октября 2014, 17:12

A video capturing a dolphin entangled in a fishing line who approaches a group of divers for help has once again proved the animal’s high intelligence.

• 04 сентября 2014, 13:24

Fourteen animal rights activists have been detained on the Faroe island of Sandoy in the North Atlantic while trying to stop a controversial dolphin hunt.

• 01 сентября 2014, 11:03

Dolphins often squeal when they get a fish treat, sounding much like happy children.

• 14 августа 2014, 10:45

Marine 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.

• 11 июня 2014, 10:50

A dolphinarium and an ice arena will be constructed in Almaty's Central Park (Gorkiy Park on Gogol Street).

• 03 июня 2014, 16:33

A surfer in Australia was airlifted to hospital Monday after a dolphin slammed into him as he was riding a wave at a remote beach.

• 17 марта 2014, 10:41

A dam which Laos plans to build across the Mekong River could wipe out critically endangered dolphins in downstream Cambodia.

• 20 февраля 2014, 15:46

The 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 февраля 2014, 16:34

Fugitive 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 января 2014, 13:16

Researchers have identified a new humpback dolphin species off northern Australia, using genetic mapping to single out an animal not previously known to science.

• 31 октября 2013, 16:15

British 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.

• 24 октября 2013, 11:45

Peru has dramatically increased its sales of shark fins to Asia, triggering the slaughter of about 15,000 dolphins a year used as bait.

• 20 октября 2013, 11:49

The 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.

• 07 октября 2013, 12:07

A virus that is similar to measles in humans is suspected of killing hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins since July.

• 28 августа 2013, 13:45

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 августа 2013, 15:36

New 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 июня 2013, 17:30

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.

• 11 мая 2013, 18:11

Scientists have urged New Zealand to take immediate action to protect the critically endangered Maui's dolphin, amid warnings the marine mammal could become extinct by 2030.

• 14 февраля 2013, 14:04