Some dolphins in Australia use sponges on their noses to hunt fish, a skill passed down through generations, according to new ...

Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, ...

The delicate art of sponge hunting is unique to a small amount of dolphins and passed down generations, but takes many years ...

How did nature make the squid's beak super hard and sharp -- allowing it, without harm to its soft body -- to capture its prey? The question, considered has captivated those interested in creating ...

The Humboldt’s beak is made of four key ingredients, water, proteins, chitin (the polymer found in insect exoskeletons) and a dark pigment. Miserez found that the soft base is mostly water (70% ...

The sharp beak of the Humboldt squid is one of the hardest and stiffest organic materials known. Engineers, biologists, and marine scientists at the University of California, ...

Researchers are always asking hard questions the rest of us would never have thought of, such as this one: How does a gelatinous squid manipulate its stiff, razor-sharp beak without turning itself ...

Underwater they spear their prey with their sharp beak and then surface and flip their meal into their mouth. The anhinga lives in shallow, slow-moving, sheltered waters.