The clip has racked up more than 24,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments as viewers marvel at the sheer size of the pod.

A group of students on a whale-watching tour out of Newport Beach were treated to an impressive show courtesy of some high-flying bottlenose dolphins. Davey’s Locker Whale Watching shared video of the close encounter, which occurred Tuesday. It shows at ...

A routine whale watching trip off the California coast turned into an unforgettable moment that travelers will remember for years. A video shared by a whale watching company in Newport Beach captured a rare sighting of a baby dolphin swimming playfully ...

Surfing is more fun when dolphins announce their presence. The accompanying footage, shared Friday by Jenny David Films, shows bottlenose dolphins crashing the lineup at Rincon near Santa Barbara. Dolphin leaps in wave at Rincon. The dolphins seemed to ...

A dolphin off the coast of California made its feelings known on June 21 when it “leaped onto a boat in Southern California, crashing into a woman and breaking both her ankles.” This occurred off the coast of Orange County, a Republican stronghold and ...

MONTEREY, Calif. -- A rare encounter left a whale-watcher in Monterey County, California in shock when a killer whale attacked a pod of dolphins. Dolphins swam for their lives after encountering eight to 10 killer whales earlier this week. This amazing ...

DNA is everywhere in the world's oceans—not only packaged inside cells from skin, scales, mucus, feces, and blood, but also floating freely. Sequencing such "environmental DNA" (eDNA) from open water has long been used as a cost-effective way of gauging the number and identity of species in a region,