How big they are: From 5 to 32 feet (1.5 to 10 meters) long, depending on the species Dolphins live in almost every ocean, except most tend to avoid the cold waters in the Arctic and around Antarctica ...

Whales are the biggest animal on the planet, dolphins are comparably smaller, but are they all one “big” happy family? They all belong to the Order Cetacea which is the group of sea mammals that ...

The Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) is among the poorest understood oceanic mammals. There is a lack of historical and present-day information about population size, habitats, ecology, and ...

We already knew that bottlenose dolphins can follow "recipes" in preparing mollusks, help other species in distress, and possibly do math. So it may come as no surprise that the marine mammals also ...

Pink dolphins are an indicator species of the Amazon river, scientists say. Swimming with the piranhas and anacondas below the surface of the Amazon River in Bolivia is a rare species: pink, ...