The US Navy has been training dolphins and sea lions to detect undersea threats since the 1960s. Over the years, the Navy has put those animals up against its most skilled human operators.

For a scientific study published in 2022, the US Navy strapped cameras to dolphins, which are trained to help identify undersea mines and protect some of America's nuclear stockpile, then gave ...

The complex houses not only hulking warships but also dozens of dolphins, sea lions, and other sea creatures. The animals are part of the US Navy Marine Mammal Program, which was established in ...

The US Navy Marine Mammal Program at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) started in 1960, when the Navy began studying Notty, a female Pacific white-sided dolphin. Researchers ...

The gamer sea lions are a project run by the US Navy Marine Mammal Program, which also has gamer bottlenose dolphins, and as well as training the mammals to perform various tasks the organisation ...

Since 1967, the Navy ... dolphin pods and sea lions come in. Navy spokesman Chris Haley says the animals have been defending the waters around the stockpile, holding roughly 25% of the United ...

Zak, a California sea lion in the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, in the Middle East in January 2003.US Navy/PH1 Brien Aho ...