Dolphins have a kick that would make Michael Phelps jealous - 212 pounds worth. How dolphins are able to swim so fast first preoccupied researchers back in 1936, when zoologist James Gray calculated the drag dolphins must overcome to swim faster than 20 miles an hour. picked by karenben 1 year ago

What is the fastest a dolphin can swim? Near the surface, no more than 54 kilometres per hour. Why? Because it hurts it to swim faster. As they swim cavitation happens, tiny bubbles form. As they break they cause pain to dolphins. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Over the coming months, thousands of dolphins - some only a few days old - will be hacked to death.
The dolphin meat is so toxic because the seas around Japan have become a soup of industrial wastes. These poisons become concentrated in fish, which the dolphins then eat. And when the Japanese eat the dolphins, they progressively poison themselves. picked by kakana 3 months ago

This probably shouldn't come as a surprise when you're struggling as much as the Miami Dolphins, but it could be a trend in the NFL: The Dolphins are paying people to show up at games. Celebs include Terrence Howard ,Matthew McConaughey, and P Diddy [ or Diddy or Puffy or Sean Combs or whatever he's calling himself this week] picked by sholom22 2 years ago

Two New Jersey rivers that a pod of bottlenose dolphins have called home since the summer are freezing, increasing concerns that the mammals might not be able to survive much longer. Update to this post picked by suebe 11 months ago

Necropsies revealed that the dolphins, which were healthy with bellies full of fish, may have been shot at the same time with the same gun. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

The partly-decomposed bodies of the dolphins, which were torn open, apparently by stray dogs, were found last night lying in the open near a coastal garbage dump site near the capital, Honiara. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago