porpoise

The specimen was donated to the museum in 1966 and has now become the basis for an exceptionally detailed digital record of the rare porpoise.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

"We've always found it tricky to understand how grey seals would kill a healthy dolphin or porpoise," Langley said.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

"Now that those have become extinct, we're going to save the Yangtze river porpoise," Professor Wang Xi tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

Not only that, but over the last five years of records, porpoise numbers have gone up by nearly a quarter.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

The porpoise kept sinking and then flicking her tail to come back flank to flank with the boat.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

However, ZSL says the public will also be able to observe some operations and post-mortems, including examinations of dolphins or porpoises that have washed up dead on UK beaches.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

"But now there is evidence from both direct observations and also from strandings data, that it also occurs between grey seals and harbour porpoises, and common dolphins," said Langley.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Their diet centered on smaller marine mammals including harbor seals and harbor porpoises, and they usually traveled and foraged in groups of about five.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025

Roughly 6 million common dolphins inhabit tropical and temperate waters worldwide, making them the most numerous members of the cetacean family, which includes whales and porpoises.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2025

Beached whales, porpoises caught in fishing nets, mermaids with hangnails— they’d call me to come underwater and help.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

For nearly four hours, first in great confusion and then heartrending resignation, the saga played out on CNN as the Learjet porpoised through the air.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 25, 2018

Blue-wing olives swarmed over the water, and beneath them, pods of big rainbow trout porpoised all around me, their noses and backs and tails breaking the surface while they fed.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch."

From Time Magazine Archive

With wheels up, Moskva porpoised off a knoll, slammed down on her belly just beyond.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gentoo penguins porpoised along beside the boat as they raised the sail and plunged forward into the rolling waves.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

McLaren team chief Andrea Stella explained that the disqualification of both cars, for excessive wear of the skid blocks, was a result of an unexpected level of "porpoising... exacerbated by the conditions" in Nevada.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

In current F1 cars, porpoising is caused by a disruption in the airflow under the car.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

This marked a return of an aerodynamic problem known as "porpoising" that dominated much of last season and will be something teams will want to try to eradicate for the rest of the weekend.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023

Mercedes struggled with the ground effect known as “ porpoising ” and Russell was fourth in the 2022 standings, Hamilton was sixth.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

When they stay up it is easy enough, but when they are porpoising, shooting it up for just a look around, you have to be looking right at one.

From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly