Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

A project born in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has produced a new method that lets scientists sort through and classify millions of dolphin sounds more rapidly than ever before.

Dolphins use powerful bursts of sound, known as echolocation clicks, to navigate and hunt with incredible precision. These focused sound waves can disorient or stun small prey, acting like a ...

Monitoring the sounds of an endangered dolphin species may provide clues to ensuring their survival, a new University of ...

University of Auckland scientists have used tracking data to recreate dives by a Hector’s dolphin. Animation shows a dive in real time using tracking information. Triangle = surfacing (you can hear ...