New nanoparticle coating mimics dolphin skin
...on and the Office of Naval Research. Do like the dolphins do The key to Wooley's antifouling agents is, perhaps counter-intuitively, their three-dimensional topography, which mimics such naturally occurring hydrodynamic surfaces as the skin of a dolphin. Using high-powered electron microscopy, researchers ...Rare Asian dolphin threatened by human activities
...Yangon University estimate that only a few tens of dolphins remain within the river. "The range of this dolphi...th. "A protected area could also preserve both the dolphins and the traditional fishing practice of cooperating with the dolphins." During the recent 27-day sur...A new animal study clarifies how different parts of the brain regulate sleep
... functional significance. Spectacular examples are dolphins which exhibit "deep" slow wave sleep only in one hemisphere at a time. State-related interhemispheric EEG asymmetries favoring the right hemisphere in NREM sleep and the left hemisphere in REM sleep have been reported for humans, cats, and rabbits. ...Flipper as Rambo: Dolphins can be great naval security tools
...me from a variety of sources even the flippers of dolphins as they continue to demonstrate in Iraqi waters. ...d other animals with cameras for 15 years and says dolphins can be a vital security link when it comes to detecting unwanted materials. Dolphins are one of the ......ns, and underwater drones joined forces. Men and dolphins had worked together before, but this was the first...US was sent out to perform wide area surveys. The dolphins then swam out to inspect potential targets located by REMUS, and the Navy and Marine Corps followed ...Scientist proposes new theory of aging
...ure their offspring. Post-reproductive bottle nose dolphins and pilot whales, for instance, babysit, guard and even breastfeed their grandchildren. And in certain primates, the gender that provides the primary care to offspring tends to have a higher life expectancy. This suggests that nurturing behavior and ...UF researcher: Animals think in their own way, but unlike humans
..., such as that chimpanzees understand language and dolphins use a sophisticated language based on their underw...of 300 new words every month, he said. And while dolphins use sonar to identify different objects underwater and have an "amazing ability" to identify the con...Evolution's mirror in a fish's spines
...ifferent animal groups, including mammals, such as dolphins and whales that have returned to the sea, snakes, reptiles, amphibians and many fish species. "It's a major morphological change in the vertebrate skeleton," Kingsley said. "And despite the fact that it has occurred repeatedly, the mechanisms respons...Staying close to mother helps baby dolphins swim
...her and baby dolphins, to disastrous effect. Young dolphins keep up with their mothers, who are more powerful ... of mother-calf dolphin pairs, causing the younger dolphins to get permanently separated from their mothers. Daniel Weihs, an aerospace engineer at Technion, t...Scientists discover secret of dolphin speed
...rbulence. Scientists have known for some time that dolphins have evolved streamlined bodies which help them re...se it gives us greater insight into the mechanisms dolphins have evolved to cope with travelling through water, which is much harder than travelling quickly thr...... evolution of hearing in modern cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). "This study of the early evolution of whales demonstrates the changes that took place in whales' outer and middle ears, required for the transition from a land-based to a marine-based existence," said Rich Lane, director of the Nati...