For those wild dolphins that have mastered foraging with nose sponges, scientists say it's a very efficient way to catch fish. The wild marine sponges vary from the size of a softball to a cantaloupe.

One dolphin swam past, her nose oddly enlarged. On a closer look, the bulb was a marine sponge — wedged tightly onto her beak ...

Hunting with a sponge on their face interferes with bottlenose dolphins’ finely tuned sense of echolocation, of emitting ...

According to a study, this technique is quite challenging because hunting while carrying a sponge on the face interferes with ...

Scientists trying to understand the hunting behaviors of bottlenose dolphins have come up with a unique solution: fit them with video cameras. The result is the most remarkable insight into the ...

Dolphins in Florida have a special way of hunting: They stir up ring-shaped plumes of mud with their tails and corral fish into an ever-tightening circle. The frightened fish then jump out of the ...