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 ...

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 ...

To explore the anatomy of the dolphin clitoris, they performed dissections, created 3-D computed tomography (CT) scans, fixed the tissues in paraffin wax and stained them to examine their ...

an associate professor of mammalian anatomy and neurobiology at the Northeast Ohio Medical University. To simplify, dolphins have thumbs, they're just concealed by flippers. The unique dolphin ...

A female dolphin cald swims about her mother at the ... it has taken us as scientists to look at the basic reproductive anatomy,” Sarah Mesnick, an ecologist at NOAA Fisheries who was not ...

Because no other dolphin possessed teeth like Nihohae’s, the researchers scoured the rest of the animal kingdom for similar anatomy. This led them to sawfish, which swipe their tooth-studded ...