We study (i-)locally singular hyperplanes in a thick dual polar space of rank n. If is not of type DQ(2n,K), then we will show that every locally singular hyperplane of is singular. We will describe a new type of hyperplane in DQ(8,K) and show that every locally singular hyperplane of DQ(8,K) is either singular, the extension of a hexagonal hyperplane in a hex or of the new type. © 2005 Elsevie...