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Jacob Kupferman | Getty ImagesThe Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets face off in the National Football League's first ever Black Friday game this week — but it's not going to be the usual broadcast or cable offering. The game will stream exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video.The NFL's decision to start a new Thanksgiving tradition with a streaming platform instead of a broadcast or cable channel is yet another indicator of trouble for linear, or traditional, TV, which has suffered from slumping ad revenue and customers…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: Watch the Dolphins vs. Jets game for free on Prime Video. When the Miami Dolphins visit the New York Jets the day after Thanksgiving, the AFC East matchup marks the NFL’s first Black Friday football game. Streaming live on Prime Video, the Black Friday game sees the Dolphins (7-3) meet the Jets (4-3) live from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New…

Underwater cameras have captured a unique dolphin behavior off the coast of Western Australia in what scientists suspect is a world-first.For decades now, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and local crabbers in the Bunbury area, roughly 160 kilometers south of Perth, have been locked in a battle over bait.When a crab pot is dropped in Koombana Bay, the local dolphins swoop in to snag the dead fish, usually before any pincered arthropods can come crawling along.When wildlife conservationist Rodney Peterson heard of…

The Dolphin Emulator, the software that lets you play old Wii and GameCube games, isn’t coming to Steam after all. The developers published a blog post today explaining how the fumbled launch went down — and why they still believe they were in the right legally. In short, Nintendo’s lawyers didn’t want it on Steam, and Valve wasn’t about to take a stand in a potential showdown with a fellow gaming behemoth. The emulator’s creators explained that, contrary to online perceptions, Nintendo didn’t send the team a DMCA…

The chances of aquatic mammals — like orcas, dolphins and whales — ever evolving to live on land again are almost nonexistent, a new study has found. Researchers discovered that the adaptations that allowed these animals to live in water have passed an evolutionary threshold that marks the point of no return to terrestrial life.  Between 350 million and 400 million years ago, the first fish crawled out of the water and onto land. These awkward vertebrates had the beginnings of limbs that allowed them to trundle around,…

Morrissey has written to Jet2holidays urging the tour operator to drop its association with marine parks that continue to use captive orcas and dolphins for entertainment.In a letter to the Jet2 chief executive, Steve Heapy, the former frontman of the Smiths said the mammals belong in the open ocean where they can find food and socialise, which they cannot do if they are in “a cramped, concrete tank”.He added that the “unnatural conditions” take a toll on the animals and points to the number of premature orca deaths in…

Dolphins might not be the first animal you think of when it comes to putting together a battle-hardened team of warriors, but the Russian military is reportedly recruiting bottlenose dolphins to defend the Sevastopol naval base in the Black Sea.As per the UK Ministry of Defence, "trained marine mammals" are being kept in pens to deter divers.Those pens have almost doubled in number in recent weeks, according to UK intelligence, suggesting that more dolphins are being recruited to the cause. While they wouldn't take on…

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…

The news that orcas are attacking and sinking ships off Europe's Iberian coast has the world captivated by the strange workings of the creatures' culture.But these aren't the only sleek ocean swimmers that have learned to respond to the presence of humans.Scientists at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia suspect that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.) in Moreton Bay, near Brisbane, are teaching each other to 'beg' boats for fish.Sometime between 2017 and 2020, marine scientists noticed dolphins approaching…

Love it or hate it, but the way humans modify their speech when they communicate with their young offspring, commonly known as "baby talk," has now been recorded among bottlenose dolphin mothers, too.Also known as motherese, child-directed communication (CDC) features a higher pitch and wider pitch range, believed to boost bonding and language learning in children.Researchers found that wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) near Sarasota Bay, Florida, changed their signature whistles – their individual "voice" –…