Common dolphins are among the ocean's most abundant mammals, but they are living shorter lives in the North Atlantic, ...

A new study reveals that common dolphins in the North Atlantic are living significantly shorter lives, with female longevity ...

Scientists found stranded dolphins show brain changes and toxins linked to Alzheimer’s during harmful algal blooms.

Research has shown vessel activity can disturb the dolphins' behaviour, and DOC has now put limits on the number of trips allowed per day for tourism operators in Akaroa harbour.

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...

Mercury contamination comes mainly from illegal gold mining and forest clearing that wash mercury that naturally occurs in ...