Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming at the Las Cuevitas dive site in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We ...

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WASHINGTON — Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose. Using the sponge to protect from sharp rocks ...

WASHINGTON – Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose. Using the sponge to protect from sharp rocks ...

Wild dolphins were captured on film putting sea sponges over their snouts, using them as tools to hunt along the seafloor.

One dolphin swam past, her nose oddly enlarged. On a closer look, the bulb was a marine sponge — wedged tightly onto her beak like a soft, fleshy glove. She was not playing. She was hunting. Off the ...

When researchers from the University of British Columbia set out to film the solitary hunting habits of Northern resident killer whales, they expected to see quiet and solitary predators at work.

But this behavior — passed down through generations — is trickier than it looks, according to new research published Tuesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Hunting with a sponge on their ...

Monitoring the sounds of an endangered dolphin species may provide clues to ensuring their survival, a new University of ...