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Miami Dolphins cornerback Will Allen was arrested and charged with DUI early Saturday morning in Miami Beach. Allen, 31, was arrested at 3:30 a.m. at Fifth Street and Alton Road, said Miami Beach police spokesman Detective Juan Sanchez. As of 2 p.m., Allen was still in custody at the Pre-Trail Detention Center in Miami with a $1,000 bond.

Dolphins are the only animals apart from humans to develop a natural form of type 2 diabetes... ...the marine mammals can turn this state on and off when appropriate, so it is not normally harmful. The unexpected discovery has emerged from a study of more than 1,000 blood samples collected from 52 dolphins. When the animals had fasted overnight, their blood sugar remained high and their blood chemistry changed in ways similar to diabetic patients. Unlike people with diabetes, the dolphins' blood reverted to normal once they had been fed. Dr Venn-Watson said that such controlled diabetes might be beneficial...

This was send by a friend of my and this idea got started by a female dolphin! Go fig, huh?

Playoff Hopes Still Alive With One Week to Play I facetiously told a friend ago that I had a better chance of nabbing a Pulitzer Prize than the Texans had of making the playoffs after losing their fourth in a row and falling to 5-7 a few weeks back. But after watching how the stars have seemingly lined-up perfectly in favor of the Texans over the past few weeks, maybe a trip to Columbia University during the month of May just might be in the cards for me after all someday.

Monterey Bay researchers say dolphins are causing porpoise deaths For the past five years, the growing number of dead harbor porpoises washing up on California shores has been a marine mystery — until now. In September, marine biologists with Okeanis, a nonprofit conservation group based in Moss Landing, captured the only video footage taken in Monterey Bay of bottlenose dolphins attacking and killing a porpoise. Scientists suspected dolphins, which have a relatively docile reputation, have been attacking the smaller porpoises because the porpoises have been washing up on the shore with rake marks and internal bleeding, but they never had...

Many species of marine creatures are very well suited to their watery environment, with precisely arranged gas exchange organs, properly angled eyeball parts, and streamlined bodies with appropriate musculature for expert swimming. They also have a continuously sloughing slime layer that lubricates their underwater motion. Rahul Ganguli of Teledyne Scientific in California is experimenting with ways to provide a similar slime for ship hulls to glide through water more efficiently...

Thought the Dolphins were done adding celebrities to their ownership group? Apparently not yet. The Dolphins are working on a deal to bring Fergie on as a limited partner, and NFL owners during their meeting in Boston on Tuesday approved the Black Eyed Peas' singer as a potential owner.

Within 12 months, the Japanese were killing more than 40,000 dolphins every year. Most were fed to children in school meals, with the rest being exported to China. Ironically, recent scientific research suggests that the Japanese authorities might be endangering the health of their own children through this practice. Dolphin meat is full of toxic mercury, cadmium, DDT and carcinogens such as dioxins and PCBs. Some cuts of dolphin meat have more than 5,000 times the safe level of mercury. Such levels can very quickly lead to severe nervous system problems and even insanity. The dolphin meat is so toxic...

For years, millions of people were enamoured of the anthropomorphic antics of our title character, a bottle-nosed female dolphin named Flipper. Everyone, that is, except the talented though hapless actor who played the father of the boys. He began to phone me, usually after midnight. “Why do they make me out to be a blithering idiot? An incompetent? Why do I always have to be a boob, huh, tell me that?" “I've kept track," he wailed. “We've shot nearly a hundred episodes and in 99 per cent of them I have to ask the bloody dolphin, ‘Where are the boys,...

Two Miami Dolphin cornerbacks will miss tonight’s preseason game against the Carolina Panthers because they are suspected of having swine flu. At first, the word from sources was that Sean Smith and Jason Allen definitely have the swine flu. But once The Miami Herald broke the story, the team flak moved in for some damage control, saying that the players were still undergoing tests to determine the actual diagnosis. And even when that diagnosis is confirmed, said spokesman Harvey Greene, it will not be released to the public. But that’s ok because apparently there are plenty of sources on the...

Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Unveil 2010 Swimsuit Calendar August 7, 2009   By Andy Kent MiamiDolphins.com Friday night on South Beach got about as hot as it could get - literally and figuratively when the 2009 Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders took to the runway in the courtyard of Casa Casuarina, formerly the Versace Mansion, for a fashion show and the unveiling of the 2010 Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Swimsuit Calendar.   Monica Mason, Johanna Torres, Amy Madill and Fabiola Romero graced the cover of the new calendar and none of them knew that until the cover was unfurled from the balcony above...

Dolphins Discovered Fleeing Warming Tropical Waters Pod of dolphins observed fleeing tropical waters, which have warmed to dangerous levels in recent years. (Miami, Florida) Marine researchers who have been observing the same pod of dolphins off Florida's eastern coast for three years have now, for the first time, photographed the dolphins swimming directly northward. "These bottlenose dolphins, possibly the smartest creatures on Earth, were observed swimming directly northward", said Prof. Bonita Krillman. "Given the recently observed warming of the tropical oceans, we theorize that this pod is heading poleward in search of cooler waters". Underwater listening devices, used to pick...

Sharks are to be trained like dolphins to feed from keepers and even roll over and have their tummies tickled. Brave keepers at British aquariums will use the techniques after research showed they responded well to tuition. Experts hope the training will reduce stress levels for the captive beasts. The UK's Sea Life Centres are to begin a period of intensive tuition by using coloured boards and sounds to train the sharks in a similar way that scientist Ivan Pavlov trained his dogs. Sharks - superorder Selachimorpha in Latin - learn the signals and then when they see or hear...

Adult tucuxi dolphins have been seen trying to kill a newborn calf of their own species. It is the first record of these dolphins attempting infanticide. Although common in many mammal species, infanticide is rarely recorded among cetaceans, the group of animals that includes whales and dolphins. Until now, the behaviour has only been reported twice in bottlenose dolphins; but the new episode suggests it may be more widespread than was thought. Tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) live either in the freshwater of the Amazonian basin, or in the ocean off the coast of Brazil to Nicaragua.

You may or may not have seen this before, but it is pretty neat. The video is on site. Dolphins create bubble rings by blowing air in a water vortex ring: by flipping a fin they create a vortex ring of water. The then blow air in the ring, which goes to the center of the vortex ring. In the water vortex ring the natural location of the air is in the center of the vortex. When air and water move in a circular path like they do in the vortex ring, air and water are separated due to the...

Dolphins' secret underwater language has intrigued generations of scientists, but no one has come close to cracking the code to understanding their mysterious sounds - until now. A British acoustics engineer claims he may be close to deciphering the clicks and whistles that make up "dolphin speak". In a lab in his Cumbrian cottage, John Stuart Reid showed me his Cymascope, a new invention which transforms sounds into pictures. He explained the principle behind it using sand, a brass plate and a violin bow. "You see what happens when we bring the bow down the side of the plate," he...

Dolphins are fantastic sea chefs who have mastered the art of rustling up a soft meal of calamari, say scientists. The intelligent sea mammals have been spotted going through precise and elaborate preparations to rid cuttlefish of ink and bone to produce a soft meal of calamari. Australian researchers observed one wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin The research team, writing in the science journal PLoS One, said they repeatedly observed a female dolphin herding cuttlefish out of algal weed and onto a clear, sandy patch of seafloor. The dolphin, identified using circular body scars, then pinned the cuttlefish with its...

The survivors of a group of dolphins living in a New Jersey river have returned after briefly heading toward the sea. Three of the five dolphins returned to the Shrewsbury River after they were spotted Saturday in Sandy Hook Bay. The Marine Mammal Stranding Centre says they were apparently frightened by construction noise near the bay. Four dolphins tried to cross again Sunday but turned back, although it wasn't clear why. Three dolphins had been confirmed dead out of the original group of 16 that spent the summer and fall in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers. Authorities don't know what...

New research has shown how dolphins achieve their blinding speeds. Gray's Paradox - named after British zoologist Sir James Gray - proposed that dolphins simply do not have the strength to swim so fast. But researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US have now studied the movement of water around dolphins as they swim. The results show that dolphins can exert as much as 180kg (400lb) of force with their tails...The short answer is that dolphins are simply much stronger than Gray or many other people ever imagined."

The museum area of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies features interactive displays for learning about marine life at the new facility in Gulfport. Marine Life post Hurricane Katrina New research, rehab facility features museum GULFPORT -- Dolphin lovers at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies are flipping over their new state-of-the-art museum and research facility expected to open in the next few weeks. IMMS President Dr. Moby Solangi, a marine biologist who spent more than two decades working with dolphins at Marine Life Oceanarium, said the new 12-acre Center for Marine Education and Research will open as soon...