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BYD launched the new Dolphin Honor Edition with more performance, an improved design, and an even lower price tag. The new BYD Dolphin EV starts at $13,900 (99,800 yuan), fueling the automaker’s declared price war on ICE cars. Meet the new BYD Dolphin EV Honor Edition After declaring a price war with gas-powered vehicles earlier this week, BYD is launching what could be its most important EV yet. The new model is BYD’s cheapest Dolphin so far, starting under $14,000 (99,800 yuan). Since…

Animal scientists have had a career-making moment, capturing on film a dolphin with such a rare skin condition that only five other recorded examples exist.Named Speckles by University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSc), the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) sported black and white pigment splatters as impressive as a Jackson Pollock original, as it breached the waters in Hervey Bay, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. “It’s an exciting discovery, as to date, there are no documented sightings of any atypically…

A great white shark carcass that washed up near Portland, Australia, in October was killed and eaten by orcas, according to researchers who studied the fish’s remains.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedThe 16-foot shark was missing its midriff—a telltale sign that orcas were involved in its demise. But recent analysis of the carcass confirmed that orcas, also known as killer whales, were the culprits.Great white sharks (Carcharadon carcharias) are some of the most fearsome predators in the world’s…

Already equipped with an impressive sonar system, new research reveals that dolphins have an extra ability that evolves as they mature in the space where their baby whiskers once were. The super sense may help them navigate and find hidden food sources.Dolphins' sonar ability, known as echolocation, is fairly legendary in the animal kingdom. This ability is so accurate that the mammals, which are technically whales, can use it to distinguish between a golf ball and a ping-pong ball underwater based on the densities of the…

It looks like bottlenose dolphins may have more tricks up their fins than we knew. New research involving trained zoo dolphins seems to confirm that these mammals can sense electricity, much like other aquatic life. The talent may allow them to better hone in on hidden fish prey and navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field, the authors say.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedThe biological ability to sense electric fields is known as electroreception. All animals produce a weak electric field, but…

Don't wait around for Dolphin to help bring Nintendo GameCube and Wii games to Steam — it's officially no longer happening. Nearly two months after postponing the release “indefinitely,” the Dolphin Emulator team now says it’s completely given up on the idea. “We are abandoning our efforts to release Dolphin on Steam,” they write.Remember when we showed you the receipts where Valve torpedoed the launch, telling Dolphin it would have to get permission from Nintendo if it wanted a place in the store? Today’s Nintendo was…

Like the orcas before them, the bottlenose dolphins have had enough. This past weekend, local reports from Japan noted several incidents of dolphins attacking and injuring swimmers, even in shallow waters.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerJapanese outlet The Asahi Shimbun reported this weekend that one swimmer in his 60s was rammed by a dolphin swimming in the shallows on a beach in Fukui Prefecture. The incident happened in the early morning on Sunday, and the man received bites to his hands…

It looks like baby talk isn’t just for humans. New research this week suggests that dolphin mothers also adopt a higher-pitched tone during certain forms of communication with their young. What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewBaby talk—also known as “mothese”—has been observed in just about every human culture and language. Though it’s most associated with mothers and their infants, even pet owners will practice a form of it with their cats or dogs. But according to…

New strategies to save boats from the orca uprising are in the works. Portuguese officials plan to test devices that could deter so-called killer whales from taking down ships with sound, according to a report from Lusa News Agency, Portugal’s largest news outlet. Trial runs of the tech could begin over the next few months or even sooner.Forget Collars—There's a Kinder Way to Track Polar Bears in the Arctic“Some lines of development of acoustic deterrents are being developed that will be tested this summer, in order to…

Parents around the world coo at their babies in swooping, high-pitched tones called “motherese,” or baby talk. This exaggerated way of speaking—which we also use with our pets—is thought to help infants bond with their caregivers and learn the boundaries between syllables and words. Dolphins, it turns out, may do the same. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that bottlenose dolphin mothers heighten…