Check out our awesome range of animal facts for kids and learn some fun trivia about our friends in the animal kingdom. Fun Dolphin Facts for Kids Check out these fun dolphin facts for kids. Learn about different types of dolphins, how they communicate with each other and much more. Read on and enjoy these inte

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Home Information Species Conservation Humans Images Video Select Page Dolphin Information Interesting Information About Dolphins Dolphin Habitat and Distribution Dolphins live in saltwater but they can also live in freshwater locations. Only a handful of the species though are known to thrive in freshwater regions. Th

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Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic marine mammal s. They are an informal grouping within the order Cetacea , excluding whale s and porpoise s, so to zoologists the grouping is paraphyletic . The dolphins comprise the extant families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (th