A groundbreaking study of banded mongooses in Uganda has shown even small-brained animals pass on traditions, giving a valuable insight into how complex human culture could have evolved.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 15, 2010 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Until now, the scientific community had thought that whistles were the main sounds made by these mammals, and were unaware of the importance and use of burst-pulsed sounds. Researchers from the Bottlenose ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 09, 2010 4.2 / 5 (5) 0

For the passing on of traditions, it appears that an especially big brain isn't required. A new report published online on June 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that even mongooses in the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 03, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(AP) -- Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" have dangerously high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, Japan's ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 09, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 5

Using DNA samples and images from Earth-orbiting satellites, conservationists from Columbia University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and Fundación AquaMarina, ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

Animal specialists were struggling on Tuesday to save 17 dolphins that became stranded on a remote beach on the Australian island of Tasmania at the weekend, after 29 already perished.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 13, 2010 not rated yet 0

Dolphins, whales and porpoises have extraordinarily small balance organs, and scientists have long wondered why.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 24, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 1 |

Tourists wanting to watch and swim with dolphins are now being urged to keep their distance in a bid to protect both the animals and the local communities whose livelihoods depend on them.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 16, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

It might sound like a mashup of monster movies, but palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 16, 2010 4.7 / 5 (9) 0 |

Many modern dolphin brains are significantly larger than those of humans and second in mass to the human brain when corrected for body size, says an Emory scientist. Some dolphin brains exhibit features correlated ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 18, 2010 4.1 / 5 (11) 11

A panel of governmental, academic and non-profit scientists speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) unveiled research suggesting that diseases ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 18, 2010 4.5 / 5 (6) 0

Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean. This has been shown in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa's Department of Maritime Civilizations. "Unfortunately, ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 04, 2010 not rated yet 0

Taiwan plans to use DNA from whales and dolphins as evidence to convict poachers and protect the endangered marine animals, an official said Monday.

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 01, 2010 3 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With high-pitched squeaks, clicks and chirps and ultra-sensitive hearing, toothed whales and some bats zero in on prey by emitting pulses of sound and interpreting the echoes that bounce back.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 25, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying dolphin behavior have suggested they could be the most intelligent creatures on Earth after humans, saying the size of their brains in relation to body size is larger than ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 06, 2010 4.6 / 5 (126) 58 |