Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge.

A dolphin named Allie gave birth early Saturday morning, zoo officials said. Zoo veterinarians say the newborn bottlenose dolphin weighs about 35 pounds and is nearly 4 feet long.

A bottlenose dolphin safely delivered a calf early Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth in more than a decade at the west suburban zoo.

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Brookfield Zoo Chicago has announced the sudden death of a four-day old bottlenose dolphin. A dolphin named Allie gave birth early Saturday morning, zoo officials said. The ...

CHICAGO — A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf was ...

A quick splash, a sleek fin cutting through the surface, and then—gone. Dolphins don’t perform on cue, but when you spot one, even for a moment, it truly does make the ocean feel alive. Some places ...

Bird flu has killed 10 bottlenose dolphins in Florida's Indian River Lagoon, making it a global hotspot for the virus in ...