From mice performing first aid to birds using antioxidants, animals display remarkable self-medication behaviors that could inspire human medicine.

Eltahawy et al. (2015) measured the anticonvulsant activity of ceramide isolated from the Red Sea soft coral Sarcophyton auritum using a pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizure model, and the ...

Bottle-nosed dolphins were seen to rub against corals, which research has now found to contain 17 active metabolites.

While the medicinal affects of coral on humans are being studied researchers observing the dolphins believe it could be used to help fight cancer, arthritis, bacterial infections, viruses, and ...

The dolphins brush up against soft gorgonian corals (Rumphella aggregata), sturdier leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) and other specific sponges (Ircinia sp.).

Dolphins wait in queue for rubbing their skin against corals These lovable and intelligent animals keep on surprising us with their complex behavior.

In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, bottlenose dolphins were spotted in 2009 doing something unusual. They lined up to rub their bodies against a particular type of coral.

For Indo-Pacific bottlenosed dolphins, rubbing against corals and sea sponges that contain antibacterial compounds could help keep skin healthy.

The researchers took samples of gorgonian coral (Rumphella aggregata), leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) and a sea sponge (Ircinia sp.), then analysed them using a high-resolution spectrometer in ...

As the scientists continued to observe the dolphins, the team noticed that the animals also rubbed their bodies against leather corals in the genus Sarcophyton, and a genus of sponges called Ircinia.