Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN DIEGO – In 1959, the Navy stood up its Marine Mammal program here. With one dolphin, researchers set out to study how fast the ...

Experts say 86 marine mammals have stranded and died off the North Carolina coast this year so far.

Technically, the marine mammal program was classified until the early 1990s, but it was a “pretty poorly kept secret,” Xitco said. Navy scientists helped create, and were heavily involved in, ...

Unexpectedly low calf numbers within the spinner dolphin population off Hawaiʻi Island were revealed in a study led by ...

Sofia Dahl, of New Lenox, said she was most surprised to learn how often and how close to shore bottlenose dolphins surface while participating in a marine mammal research program in Sarasota, Florida ...

Dolphins are notoriously smart – expressing emotions like joy and grief; maintaining cooperative social networks; and solving problems in nature and laboratory settings. They are among just a handful ...

A sailor works with a bottlenose porpoise before a night training exercise at Point Loma, Calif. US Navy Photo Just moments after a Navy EA-18G Growler jet crashed into San Diego Bay this week, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — It’s a hands-on opportunity for high school students interested in marine sciences. The University of Hawaii is accepting applications for the Summer Marine Mammal Intensive ...

Whitecaps were breaking in San Diego Bay and the rain was blowing sideways, but on a recent day at Naval Base Point Loma, an elderly bottlenose dolphin named Blue was not acting her age. In a bay full ...

In her youth, Blue was a standout mine-hunter for the U.S. military. She and her colleagues are now at the vanguard of geriatric marine mammal medicine. Credit... Supported by By Emily Anthes ...