Hervey Bay is a coastal city in Queensland's Fraser Coast region, renowned for calm seas and nearby whale-watching, now noted for a study showing dolphins using shells to trap fish off its coast.
Dolphins off Australia’s east coast are using empty shells to trap prey, a behavior called shelling. The approach has been observed in Hervey Bay and Queensland’s Great Sandy Marine Park, with footage suggesting maternal transmission. Researchers say this adds to evidence of tool use in dolphins and may illuminate how humans evolved tool use.