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Dolphin mamas appear to sing their own name to their unborn calves.

SeaWorld San Diego, long known for its live killer-whale shows, will begin phasing out the performances next year in favor of conservation-based shows.

Bottlenose dolphins swimming in waters affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are dying earlier and birthing fewer calves than dolphins living in other areas, a new study shows.

A new fossil discovery sheds light on when some dolphins went from oceans to rivers.

Bottlenose dolphins moved into the Mediterranean, once too salty to harbor much marine life, at the end of the last ice age about 18,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Researchers have determined the baby orca born into a pod off the west coast is a female.

An albino bottlenose dolphin, recently spotted off the east coast of Florida, was caught on video flashing its white dorsal fin above the water's blue waves.

A baby killer whale was born into the endangered J-pod that lives off the coast of Washington state.