Hey there, Eastern-seaboard beach-goers! Been enjoying your summer of cold beer, casual sex, outdoor music festivals, ice cream dinners, and mysterious dolphin carcasses? Of course you haven’t — who can enjoy ice cream dinners with so many rotting dolphin carcasses lining our beaches, fouling up the air and… Read… 8/04/13 3:00pm 8/04/13 3:00pm

Dolphins are magical, highly-intelligent creatures that play with surfers, save drunk people from riptides, and jump over the rings of Lisa Frank’s neon-splattered Saturn. They’re cosmic beings, dolphins are, in direct communication with the undying essence of the universe, privy to the semi-divine thalassic secrets… Read… 5/27/13 12:30pm 5/27/13 12:30pm

In the late 19th century, the Howell torpedo was an incredibly advanced piece of military equipment, a breakthrough device in the United States' quest to achieve naval dominance. But only one surviving Howell torpedo was known to exist—until Navy dolphins nosed up another. Read on io9 5/19/13 1:15pm 5/19/13 1:15pm

An enormous dolphin stampede—about seven miles long and five miles wide and estimated to comprise 100,000 rogue dolphs—is currently rampaging around off the coast of San Diego. Here's a first-hand account: Read… 2/18/13 9:15pm 2/18/13 9:15pm

Get ready to be both sad and inspired by the beauty of nature: A lone bottlenose dolphin with a S-shaped spine deformity was spotted swimming among a pod of sperm whales in the North Atlantic. Read… 1/24/13 10:25am 1/24/13 10:25am

Tourists in Hawaii really like to see dolphins, and that's fine because dolphins are magical (when they're not trying to bad-flipper isolated swimmers or murder innocent tiger sharks), but it's also creating a significant problem: insomniac dolphins aren't getting enough sleep because tourists keep wanting to stare… Read… 8/29/12 10:00am 8/29/12 10:00am

If you suffer from seasickness, you're just going to have to weigh that unfortunate condition against how much you want to see a friendly Labrador retriever chase down some dolphins, demanding that they play with him. Dogs don't make the best videographers, but they're definitely the most ingenuous and adorable.… Read… 8/05/12 2:00pm 8/05/12 2:00pm

This dolphin video (yay for dolphins!) comes courtesy a friend of a friend, so everybody be nice and say how much you enjoy the soothing ocean vistas. The paddleboarder's name is Nik and the reason all the dolphins swarm around him and not the rest of us is because he stuffs his boardshorts with dolphin treats. J/k… Read… 7/19/12 11:15pm 7/19/12 11:15pm

The Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach, CA has hosted a new resident for the last 5 days — a 7-foot dolphin nicknamed by the locals as "Bolsa Chica Bob" or "Fred" (great nicknames, locals). Marine experts have attempted to push "Bolsa Chica Bob" into the deeper waters of Huntington Harbour only to have the dolphin… Read… 5/01/12 2:20pm 5/01/12 2:20pm

Researchers have found that a recently observed society of bottlenose dolphins, swimming and fucking without prejudice in Western Australia's Shark Bay live in an open society, the result of living without clearly defined territorial boundaries. Read… 3/29/12 10:40am 3/29/12 10:40am

What does a cat have in common with a bottlenose dolphin? Aside from being cute and having a plot to take over the world, the answer is: a total inability to taste sweets. Scientists have known for years that cats and their wild feline friends lions and tigers have lost the sweet receptors on their scratchy tongues, … Read… 3/12/12 5:10pm 3/12/12 5:10pm

A new study has found that dolphins have their own cute little signature whistles that they use to introduce themselves to others when meeting up at popular ocean hangouts. It works kind of like a "What's goin' on, man." If Ryan Gosling was a dolphin, his signature would probably be the whistle version of "Hey girl." Read… 2/29/12 6:15pm 2/29/12 6:15pm

New research shows that dolphins don't really whistle — their squeaky voices are produced by tissue vibrations, much like human speech. This allows them to change tone quickly, a technique necessary for complex communication. Scientists speculate that the seemingly sweet creatures are saying things like, "our plan is… Discuss… 9/08/11 12:20pm 9/08/11 12:20pm

Dolphin therapy programs claim that swimming with the sea mammals can cure conditions from chronic fatigue syndrome to autism. However, aside from a few small studies suggesting that dolphin fun may help with depression and, oddly, eczema, there's no evidence for these claims. Also, as much as dolphins may like playing … Discuss… 7/18/11 1:58pm 7/18/11 1:58pm

Tourists on a Florida dolphin-watching cruise got more than their money's worth when a 600-pound dolphin jumped onto the deck of their 24-foot boat. The dolphin mistimed its jump and wound up hitting a woman on board, spraining her ankle. The group called 911 and members of the Isles of Capri Fire and Rescue Department … Discuss… 3/14/11 8:37pm 3/14/11 8:37pm

Here's an adorable animal story to take your mind off your troubles. This week in Florida, an elderly Doberman named Turbo disappeared after a gate was left open. Fifteen hours later, a neighbor spotted him floating in a canal and pulled him out. He would've been there longer, but several dolphins stayed with Turbo… Discuss… 2/25/11 11:10am 2/25/11 11:10am

[Atlanta, February 16: Lily, a bottlenose dolphin, swims in the new exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium. Image via AP.] Discuss… 2/17/11 11:30pm 2/17/11 11:30pm

Here's more proof that dolphins are smarter than dogs, cats, and maybe even babies. CNN visited an underwater lab where researchers watch dolphins through a two-way mirror. They don't just recognize their reflections; they love admiring themselves in the mirror. Discuss… 12/27/10 11:51am 12/27/10 11:51am

Several Japanese movie theaters canceled screenings of the anti-dophin hunting documentary The Cove due to protests, so the distributor is allowing it to be aired online for a limited time, saying people should see the film before attacking it. [Reuters] Discuss… 6/17/10 11:20am 6/17/10 11:20am

• According to a study, two thirds of British women are totally bored with their lives. Perhaps more importantly, 7 out of 10 women are "fed up with being broke." Read… 6/15/10 5:40pm 6/15/10 5:40pm

Last night on Letterman, Jennifer Garner discussed spending a day with dolphins to prepare for a role. When one dolphin started rubbing her leg, she thought, "This dolphin's really into me." Turns out, he was a little too into her. Discuss… 2/10/10 6:20pm 2/10/10 6:20pm

• A woman from Florida claims she returned from a visit with the doctor only to find that her bruise contained an image of Jesus. She says the appearance of the face "strengthened her faith." ABC Newscasters aren't convinced. • Read… 1/04/10 5:30pm 1/04/10 5:30pm

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This strangely mesmerizing video is reportedly from a French documentary film, Le Premiere Cri. It shows a woman taking "natural birth" to a whole new level by giving birth underwater in a pool with a dolphin. [BoingBoing] Discuss… 10/07/09 10:40am 10/07/09 10:40am

• A recent study found that feeling lonely increases the risk of heart disease by 80% in women. Which means, if the tabloids are to be believed, that Jennifer Aniston has only about a month to live. • Read… 8/21/09 6:00pm 8/21/09 6:00pm

[Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; December 31. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Last night while watching CNN, I saw one of those cheesy family vacation commercials — this one for Atlantis, the resort in the Bahamas — and a very familiar song was playing. And then I realized that it was "Anyone Else But You," the tune heard almost every five minutes in Juno. The lyrics have been reworked to be about … Discuss… 7/23/08 11:00am 7/23/08 11:00am

Twenty-six dolphins died this week in an apparent mass suicide attempt in England, while others were led back out to sea by volunteers. A zoological pathologist examining the animals has determined that "The dolphins had swallowed and inhaled big chunks of mud from the estuary. Their lungs and stomachs were full of it."… Read… 6/12/08 3:45pm 6/12/08 3:45pm