Since at least 2006, a video clip has been making the rounds showing dolphins creating and playing with bubble rings. The video was published just one year after YouTube was created. Before the ...

Learn how dolphins have fun by blowing bubble rings underwater, using clever tricks to play games. Dolphins are one of the most intelligent creatures on Earth, but they also know how to have some fun.

Curious humpback whales are blowing bubble rings at us. Is it a new kind of conversation? Imagine you are on a quiet whale watching trip. A humpback surfaces beside the boat, lingers for a moment, ...

You probably have seen smoke rings blown by cigarette smokers or bubble rings from playful dolphins. But do you know that they are closely related to each other and officially known as the vortex ring ...

Bubble ring created by a humpback whale named Thorn. Credit: © Dan Knaub, The Whale Video Company. June 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the ...

Smoke rings are being seen in a new light. Doughnut-shaped structures called vortex rings are sometimes seen swirling through fluids. Smokers can form them with their mouths, volcanoes can spit them ...

Humans do it with smoke. With a little snort, dolphins can produce a nearly perfect "air" rings, (sophisticated non-dolphins called them toroidal vortices) which they turn into underwater toys. If ...