From spears and the invention of the wheel to smartphones and robots, human societies have been building and using tools from the beginning. Human tool use has served to conquer new environments, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Shark Bay dolphin using a sponge as a foraging tool. (Stephanie King/University of Bristol) A small population of dolphins in ...

Some bottlenose dolphins have learned to use tools to help them catch fish, a clever technique that may be passed on from mother to calf. Scientists in Australia observed dolphins chasing fish into ...

Some Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia use sea sponges as tools to protect their snouts while hunting hidden prey, a behavior known as "sponging." Sponging occurs only ...

Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as Greek mythology. But it wasn’t until the 1960s that methodical research into dolphin communication began.

Scientists have documented humans and dolphins teaming up to fish together in a handful of places around the world—and now, for the first time, in the United States. Over the last decade, Florida ...