And that growing understanding of the anatomy of dolphins, whales, turtles and fish is bringing dreams of allowing human divers to dive deeper, faster and more safely a little bit closer to reality.

The internal anatomy grants the female agency in choosing which male’s sperm may fertilize her egg. When Dr. Brennan and Dr. Orbach began researching dolphin vaginas together in 2016 ...

At first blush, the intricacies of dolphin love may seem risqué. But Orbach’s work is some of the first in more than a century to reanalyze the female sexual anatomy of marine mammals—in this ...

Bottlenose dolphins are highly sexual creatures ... long it has taken us as scientists to look at the basic reproductive anatomy,” Sarah Mesnick, an ecologist at NOAA Fisheries who was not ...

"Normally, dolphins develop their fingers within the flipper and no cells between the fingers die off," added Lisa Noelle Cooper, an associate professor of mammalian anatomy and neurobiology at ...