A bottlenose dolphin safely delivered a calf early Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth in more than a decade at the west suburban zoo.

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A baby dolphin born live on camera at Brookfield Zoo has died just days after footage of the birth went viral, the zoo announced Thursday. The zoo said it was "devastated" by the sudden loss of the ...

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade. On ...

CHICAGO — A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf was ...

This Chicago-area zoo is expecting its first dolphin birth in more than a decade. Bottlenose dolphin Allie, 37, is pregnant, Brookfield Zoo Chicago announced. The calf is due in June, but 24-hour ...

A Chicago zoo has a pretty big flipping reason to be excited! Brookfield Zoo Chicago welcomed its first bottlenose dolphin calf since 2014 when a 38-year-old bottlenose dolphin named Allie gave birth, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) A male dolphin died shortly after being born at Brookfield Zoo on Friday, zoo officials said. The calf ...