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Introduction1
How smart are dolphins? (Lori Marino, TED-Ed)
TED-Ed (YouTube Channel)
Dictionary
dolphin : any of various small marine toothed whales (family Delphinidae) with the snout more or less elongated into a beak and the neck vertebrae partially fused
Note: While not closely related, dolphins and porpoises share a physical resemblance that often leads to misidentification. Dolphins typically have cone-shaped teeth, curved dorsal fins, and elongated beaks with large mouths, while porpoises have flat, spade-shaped teeth, triangular dorsal fins, and shortened beaks with smaller mouths. — Webster See also OneLook
Encyclopedia
Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals. They are an informal grouping within the order Cetacea, excluding whales and porpoises, so to zoologists the grouping is paraphyletic. The dolphins comprise the extant families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the new world river dolphins), and Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin). There are 40 extant species of dolphins. Dolphins, alongside other cetaceans, belong to the clade Cetartiodactyla with even-toed ungulates. Their closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago. — Wikipedia
Dolphin (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Cetacean Fact Sheets (American Cetacean Society)
Dolphins (One Zoom)
Dolphin (WolframAlpha)
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Innovation
Science
Cetology is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific order Cetacea. — Wikipedia
Solidifying the Dolphin Family Tree (Devin Reese, Smithsonian Ocean)
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Preservation
Library
DDC: 599.53 Dolphins (Library Thing)
Subject: Dolphins (Library Thing)
Subject: Dolphins (Open Library)
LCC: QL 737.C432 TERM (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Dolphins (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: QL 737.C432 TERM (Library of Congress)
Subject: Dolphins (Library of Congress)
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Participation
Education
Cetacean Curriculum (American Cetacean Society)
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Community
Occupation
Cetologists , or those who practice cetology, seek to understand and explain cetacean evolution, distribution, morphology, behavior, community dynamics, and other topics. — Wikipedia
Careers in Mammalogy (American Society of Mammalogists)
Organization
American Society of Mammalogists
The Mammal Society
News
Marine Mammal Science (Society for Marine Mammalogy)
Mammal Review (The Mammal Society)
Journal of Mammalogy (American Society of Mammalogists)
Mammalian Species (American Society of Mammalogists)
TERM (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Dolphins (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Dolphins (Science Daily)
Dolphins (Science News)
Dolphins (Phys.org)
Dolphins (NPR Archives)
Government
Document
More News …
Dolphins and Whales News -- ScienceDaily Whales and dolphins. Whale songs, beaching, endangered status -- current research news on all cetaceans.
- How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see, in the...on March 29, 2023 at 1:19 pm
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- Inbreeding contributes to decline of endangered...on March 20, 2023 at 6:37 pm
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- Unraveling whale entanglement risk factors off...on March 20, 2023 at 6:37 pm
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- Minke whales are as small as a lunge-feeding...on March 13, 2023 at 4:09 pm
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- Toothed whales catch food in the deep using vocal...on March 3, 2023 at 3:53 pm
Toothed whales, such as dolphins, killer whales and sperm whales communicate and catch food exclusively with sound. Now researchers have for the first time found they evolved a new sound source in their nose that is functionally the same as the human larynx.
Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.
- New research using fossils of whale ancestors...on March 30, 2023 at 3:51 pm
Modern cetaceans—whales and dolphins—have one of the largest size ranges of any living animal group, ranging from as small as 1.5 meters long to as much as 30. However, a new study reveals this diversity came much later in their evolution than expected.
- Fishing line and plastic endangering young...on March 30, 2023 at 1:58 pm
A leading Perth dolphin researcher is urging fishers to be extra vigilant with the proper disposal of fishing lines and hooks after seeing several of the marine mammals in Cockburn Sound caught up in discarded line. Dr. Delphine Chabanne, from Murdoch University's Harry Butler Institute, said she saw two young bottlenose dolphins within about eight months that had line wrapped tightly around their bodies. Others had been seen caught in line in previous years.
- Mighty oceans and humble ponds play key roles in...on March 28, 2023 at 5:24 pm
By monitoring oceans and peering into ponds, European projects seek to protect an array of animal and plant life.
- Bangladesh bans plastics in world's largest...on March 28, 2023 at 2:02 pm
Conservationists in Bangladesh said Tuesday that tourists dropping rubbish in the world's largest mangrove forest had seriously damaged the ecosystem, forcing the imposition of a single-use plastic ban in the World Heritage site.
- Scientists uncover startling concentrations of...on March 24, 2023 at 6:03 pm
First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation's largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground—and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water.
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