U.S. Navy To Retire Mine-Sweeping Dolphins And Use Robots Instead
Soon, dolphins and sea lions won't be hunting mines any more. The U.S. Navy is phasing out the Marine Mammal Program. Though trained sea mammals have been serving the Navy…
View ArticleDiscovered: Giant Dolphin-Like Sea Monster That Ate Dinosaurs
Dolphins are great! Intelligent, charming, cute. This newly-discovered dolphin-like predator: maybe not so great. _Thalattoarchon saurophagis_--meaning "lizard-eating…
View ArticleTrained Soviet Attack Dolphins With Head-Mounted Guns Are On The Loose
Last year, the Ukrainian Navy decided to reinstitute a Soviet-era dolphin training program. Specifically, according to reports, the dolphins had pistols and knives strapped…
View ArticleNavy Dolphins Searching For Mines Uncover Sunken 19th Century Torpedo
Dolphins have been used for 50 years to help the U.S. Navy echolocate mines. That project is going away in 2017 (to be replaced by robots) but in the meantime, a team of…
View ArticleDolphins Know Other Dolphins By Name Even After Decades Apart
Last month, a study indicated that dolphins call each other by names, of a sort: they have a particular whistle unique to each dolphin, and when a dolphin hears its own…
View ArticleWhen NASA Paid Researchers To Learn To Talk To Dolphins
In 1965, as a part of a NASA-funded project, a woman lived for six months in rooms flooded with a few feet of seawater. For a roommate, she had an adolescent male…
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Navy Agrees To Limit Sonar Testing In California And Hawaii To Protect The...
Animals And dolphins too! In a settlement announced this week, the United States Navy agreed to limit activities around sensitive whale and dolphin habitats off the coast of Southern California and…
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Meatballs Of The Future, A Two-Tailed Comet, And Other Amazing Images Of The...
Science Plus, what dolphins think you look like A collection of some of the best science and tech images from around the web this week.
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Fossil Discovery Could Help Today's Endangered River Dolphins
Animals A remarkable find, now in 3D What swims on its side, is blind and lives in some of the most polluted rivers in the world?
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Dolphins beat up octopuses before eating them, and the reason is kind of...
Animals In this food fight you either win or you die In general, it’s best for your food to not kill you. Dolphins agree, which is why they thrash their octopus around a bit before they chow down....
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