Dolphins Filmed Using Sea Shells as Tools in Rare Sighting off Australia

Aug 12, 2026 - 15:45
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Dolphins Filmed Using Sea Shells as Tools in Rare Sighting off Australia
This image shows a shelling event that occurred on January 4, 2019. Image credit: Levengood et al., doi: 10.1111/mms.70252.

Marine biologists have documented Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) using large sea shells to hunt for fish off the coast of Queensland, Australia -- only the second place in the world where this behavior, known as shelling, has ever been recorded.

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