CHARLESTON - An ancient giant dolphin skeleton in the Lowcountry is helping to answer questions about the evolution of early branching dolphins. The well-preserved 24 million-year-old skeleton of a ...

Archaeologists excavating a medieval site on a tiny islet in the English Channel were baffled by the discovery of a dolphin skeleton in what appears to be a carefully prepared grave. The researchers ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Keith Rittmaster walked out of his trailer, arms filled with shovels, buckets and brushes. It was the day of the big dig, and Rittmaster led a group of 14 volunteers through a “Secret ...

A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The 15-foot ...

Prehistoric dolphins acted more like modern-day killer whales, according to a newly published study. The research, which appears in the scientific journal Current Biology, describes a ...

A partial skeleton from an Oligocene dolphin species was found in South Carolina, according to a study published November 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Robert Boessenecker from the ...

Dolphins may seem cute and friendly, but the largest member of the dolphin family is actually none other than the ultimate hunter of the sea — the killer whale, also known as an orca. Now researchers ...

The body of a man without hands, thought to have been buried hundreds of years ago, has been found by archaeologists on a rocky islet off the coast of Guernsey, one of the British Channel Islands — ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Clearwater Marine Aquarium has opened a new celebration called Dolphintopia, a multi-faceted immersive exhibition that explores the science of dolphins, and also their intimate ...

A report offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The 15-foot-long dolphin (Ankylorhiza tiedemani comb ...