In this context, researchers have connected neurotoxins from algal blooms to brain changes associated with an Alzheimer’s-like disease in dolphins in Florida. This connection does not bode well for ...

When researchers sampled brain tissue of stranded dolphins, they found Alzheimer’s disease-like developments and drastically ...

For humans, eyes are an important indicator of attention. By the time they are one year old, babies appear to understand how visual perception works and will consistently follow their mother’s gaze.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mauricio Cantor, behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University, about his study on how humans and dolphins work together to fish in a southern Brazilian city. Our next ...

Dolphins living along Florida’s coast appear to be affected by the same types of environmental factors that are being ...

MARATHON, Fla. — Through the muddied haze of an artificial lagoon, bottlenose dolphins Delta and Reese knew what to do. Two buttons situated on opposite edges of the lagoon would, if hit in tandem, ...

"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary ...

"DID A DOLPHIN JUST TRY TO SPEAK TO ME?" DUNNELLON, Fla., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "A,E,O,U"--these are the vowels the dolphin, Zeus, made that grabbed the attention of lead researcher Jack ...

Our next story takes us to the coastal town of Laguna in southern Brazil, where bottlenose dolphins hunt for prey. (SOUNDBITE OF DOLPHIN CLICKING) SHAPIRO: That's the sound of them zeroing in on a ...