The school mascot, a bottle-nosed dolphin, was named Rocky in 2002 to be in accord with the fight song.

Maine is expected to join a foster family of bottle-nosed dolphins, a cousin species, within two weeks.

Play is also important to bottle-nosed dolphins.

In the open ocean, bottle-nosed dolphins often form hunting herds.

Instead of his chum, he found himself face to face with a bottle-nosed dolphin!

Boat captains say pods of bottle-nosed dolphins usually range from 3 to 50 individuals.

"He's performed more than 1,400 autopsies on bottle-nosed dolphins and he said he has never seen anything like this."

Under mounting legal pressure from animal rights groups, the Navy has suspended its plan to use bottle-nosed dolphins to guard a nuclear submarine base.

This disease is usually found in humans and bottle-nosed dolphins.

He thought it was a bottle-nosed dolphin until its size registered.