Dolphins use tools to help them forage for food and pass on their skills to their offspring, a new study has found. Scientists studying bottlenose dolphins from Shark Bay in West Australia found 41 of ...

Sea otters may have been using tools to get at food for millions of years. This is way longer than bottlenose dolphins – their marine mammal tool-using counterparts, which have only mastered the ...

Discover how bottlenose dolphins use tools, like sponges, to enhance their foraging techniques off Western Australia. Certain bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Western Australia have picked up an ...

A groundbreaking AI tool will be able to track dolphins by their regional accents. Sea mammal expert Dr Julie Oswald, of the University of St Andrews’ Scottish Oceans Institute, created the tool, ...

Using tools borrowed from human medical research, we found that male dolphins with stronger social bonds appear biologically ...

Sea otters may have been using stone tools for thousands or even millions of years, according to scientists. It appears otters learned how to use tools long before other marine mammals. Sea otters are ...

Only a very few animals use tools. Crows wield sticks to find food, chimps have fashioned primitive spears to hunt and dolphins in Australia have been spotted trapping fish in huge conch shells. Now, ...

Sea otters are smart little fellas — they have probably been using tools to capture food for millions of years. Pixabay. public domain Humans aren’t the only animals that can use tools to get a job ...

Sea otters may have been using stone tools millions of years ago, perhaps even before the first pre-human thought of cracking open a nut with a lump of rock. The marine creatures knew about tools long ...

Sea otters may have been using stone tools for thousands or even millions of years, according to scientists. It appears otters learned how to use tools long before other marine mammals. Sea otters are ...

Only a very few animals use tools. Crows wield sticks to find food, chimps have fashioned primitive spears to hunt and dolphins in Australia have been spotted trapping fish in huge conch shells. Now, ...

It appears otters learned how to use tools long before other marine mammals. Sea otters are often seen floating on their backs, using rocks to break open shellfish for food. A genetic study of more ...