Bottlenose dolphins Tapeko, Allie and Allie’s new calf swim together at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. Tapeko is an experienced dolphin mother that accompanied Allie during the birth.

The dolphin calf was born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago early Saturday morning as a team of veterinarians monitored and cheered on the mom, a 38-year-old bottlenose dolphin named Allie.

Dolphins seem to “feel” their way across the sea with narrow, sweeping beams of sonar ...

Allie, a 38-year-old bottlenose dolphin and experienced mother of four, gave birth to the calf — which will be named later this summer — at 12:22 a.m., the zoo said in a news release.

For this study, researchers looked at brains from 14 dead dolphins, including seven Florida bottlenose dolphins that beached themselves in 2005 along the Atlantic, the Indian River Lagoon, the ...

About 51,000 bottlenose dolphins—the most common species off the Texas coast—are frolicking in the northern Gulf as you read this. Occasionally, though, one of them ends up on land.

Around 500 dolphins spend some of the year in the area, while about 100 are permanent residents—mostly females and their offspring who live near the mouth of the Tiber River, where food is most ...