Dolphins 10 times stronger than fittest human athletes

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 13:03

Refuting Gray`s paradox that dolphins do not have sufficient muscle power for obtaining high speeds and accelerations and must use a trick of fluid mechanics, researchers have found that dolphins are in reality stronger than the fittest human athletes.

BP Gulf oil spill still killing dolphins

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 11:40

A new study has revealed that BP gulf oil spill is still influencing dolphin mortality, prognosis and reproductive health.

Dolphins `purposely get high on puffer fish toxins`

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 14:54

A new documentary has revealed that dolphins, like humans, also deliberately `gets high`.

Scientists believe some whales flee from sonar

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 19:32

The Navy plans to increase sonar testing in US waters over the next five years even as studies it funded reveal worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.

Scientists believe some whales flee from sonar

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 02:06

The Navy plans to increase sonar testing in US waters over the next five years even as studies it funded reveal worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.

Japan`s hunts pushing dolphins, whales to extinction

Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 23:55

Environmental Investigation Agency, a voluntary group, Thursday said that Japan`s reliance on outdated data for hunts of small cetaceans has put some species of whales and dolphins at the risk of extinction, The Guardian reported.

New method to identify signature whistles of dolphins

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 18:07

Scientists have developed a new method to analyse the unique "tune" of a dolphin`s signature whistle.

Dolphins may not be as smart as thought!

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 15:41

Dolphins, which are believed to be the cleverest creatures in the animal kingdom, may not possess high intelligence, a new study has revealed.

New Zealand faces flak for apathy towards rare dolphins

Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2013, 22:34

The New Zealand government Friday proposed a further fishing net ban off the west of the country`s North Island in a bid to save the world`s most endangered dolphin but critics say the move is too little too late.

Bats, dolphins evolved echolocation in same way

Last Updated: Thursday, September 5, 2013, 14:32

Scientists have found that there are certain genetic similarities between bats and dolphins and that the evolution of similar traits in different species.

Measles-like virus killing dolphins in US

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 12:07

A measles-like virus may have caused the death of around 300 bottlenose dolphin along the Mid-Atlantic coast in the US, officials said.

Scientists amazed by how much dolphins remember

Last Updated: Saturday, August 10, 2013, 18:45

A scientific study shows that dolphins are the animals with the greatest memory-storage capacity after humans, according to the British magazine Proceedings of the Royal Society B.