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Things We Can Learn From Dolphins: Electro-Sensing, Amazing Powers of Healing
Dolphin Electro-Whiskers The dots on this dolphin's rostrum are hairless vibrissal crypts, structures originally associated with mammalian whiskers, which serve as electroreceptors. Czech-Damal et....
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A Clever New Fishing Method, 'Conching,' is the Latest Trend Spreading Among...
That's Some Seriously Sick Conching, Bro "Conching," a means of fishing using conch shells as traps, is the newest craze among Western Australia's Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins. Murdoch University...
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New Species of Dolphin Discovered Off the Coast of Australia
Newly-Discovered Burrunan Dolphin Kate Charlton-Robb et al, PLoS One A new species of dolphin was discovered by Australian zoologists off the coast of Melbourne, after they realized the 150 or so...
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When the Best Tool for the Job Is an Animal
The Best Tool for the Job BaarbarianView Photo GalleryAfter DARPA announced, somewhat sheepishly, that after $19 billion and six years of research, they had concluded that the best bomb-detecting...
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Video: A Water-Propelled 'Dolphin Jetpack'
The Flyboard Some people go swimming with dolphins, enthralled with their easy movement through the water and the grace with which they occasionally breach the surface. Others, like Franky Zapata,...
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Talking to Dolphins: New "Dolphin Speaker" Produces Full Range of Dolphinese...
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish U.S. Navy photo by Veronica Birmingham Communication with dolphins is getting better all the time — they've been using iPads, for one thing, and humans have been...
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U.S. Navy To Retire Mine-Sweeping Dolphins And Use Robots Instead
Sea Lab Dolphin Training Courtesy U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program Soon, dolphins and sea lions won't be hunting mines any more. The U.S. Navy is phasing out the Marine Mammal Program. Though trained...
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Discovered: Giant Dolphin-Like Sea Monster That Ate Dinosaurs
Thalattoarchon saurophagis John Weinstein, The Field Museum, Chicago Dolphins are great! Intelligent, charming, cute. This newly-discovered dolphin-like predator: maybe not so great. Thalattoarchon...
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Trained Soviet Attack Dolphins With Head-Mounted Guns Are On The Loose
Mine Clearance Dolphin Wikimedia Commons Last year, the Ukrainian Navy decided to reinstitute a Soviet-era dolphin training program. Specifically, according to reports, the dolphins had pistols and...
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Navy Dolphins Searching For Mines Uncover Sunken 19th Century Torpedo
19th Century Torpedo U.S. Navy via Los Angeles TimesDolphins have been used for 50 years to help the U.S. Navy echolocate mines. That project is going away in 2017 (to be replaced by robots) but in...
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Dolphins Know Other Dolphins By Name Even After Decades Apart
Bottlenose Dolphins Wikimedia Commons Last month, a study indicated that dolphins call each other by names, of a sort: they have a particular whistle unique to each dolphin, and when a dolphin hears...
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When NASA Paid Researchers To Learn To Talk To Dolphins
Atlantic Spotted Dolphins So long, and thanks for all the fish. Wikimedia Commons In 1965, as a part of a NASA-funded project, a woman lived for six months in rooms flooded with a few feet of...
View ArticleNew Species of Dolphin Discovered Off the Coast of Australia
A new species of dolphin was discovered by Australian zoologists off the coast of Melbourne, after they realized the 150 or so porpoises that were previously thought to be…
View ArticleWhen the Best Tool for the Job Is an Animal
After DARPA announced, somewhat sheepishly, that after $19 billion and six years of research, they had concluded that the best bomb-detecting device is a dog, we got to…
View ArticleVideo: A Water-Propelled 'Dolphin Jetpack'
Some people go swimming with dolphins, enthralled with their easy movement through the water and the grace with which they occasionally breach the surface. Others, like…
View ArticleTalking to Dolphins: New "Dolphin Speaker" Produces Full Range of Dolphinese...
Communication with dolphins is getting better all the time — they've been using iPads, for one thing, and humans have been working on a type of Rosetta Stone-like two-way…
View ArticleU.S. Navy To Retire Mine-Sweeping Dolphins And Use Robots Instead
Soon, dolphins and sea lions won't be hunting mines any more. The U.S. Navy is phasing out the Marine Mammal Program. Though trained sea mammals have been serving the Navy…
View ArticleDiscovered: Giant Dolphin-Like Sea Monster That Ate Dinosaurs
Dolphins are great! Intelligent, charming, cute. This newly-discovered dolphin-like predator: maybe not so great. _Thalattoarchon saurophagis_--meaning "lizard-eating…
View ArticleTrained Soviet Attack Dolphins With Head-Mounted Guns Are On The Loose
Last year, the Ukrainian Navy decided to reinstitute a Soviet-era dolphin training program. Specifically, according to reports, the dolphins had pistols and knives strapped…
View ArticleNavy Dolphins Searching For Mines Uncover Sunken 19th Century Torpedo
Dolphins have been used for 50 years to help the U.S. Navy echolocate mines. That project is going away in 2017 (to be replaced by robots) but in the meantime, a team of…
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