A likely terrified, apparently bleeding dolphin is stranded in the Gowanus Canal — the polluted Superfund site/former Mafia dumping ground running through central Brooklyn. Authorities and dolphin experts are on-scene, but no rescue operation can be attempted until for high tide — at 7 p.m.
A family trip to SeaWorld Orlando to interact with her favorite animal ended in trauma for 8-year-old Jillian Thomas of Alpharetta, Georgia, after she was bitten by a hungry dolphin.
An investigation into the 2011 death of two dolphins at the Connyland amusement park in Switzerland has revealed that loud music from a techno party was not to blame for Shadow and Chelmers' untimely demise, but rather a heroin subsistute, which was discovered in their urine.
Animal rescue specialists and state officials in Orange County who attempted to force a dolphin living in the Bolsa Chica channel to rejoin his pod in Huntington Harbour have decided to temporarily abandon their efforts after "Bolsa Chica Bob" was blocked from leaving the area by his fellow dolphins.
Rescuers are trying to help a stranded dolphin return to the ocean after the animal got trapped in a narrow wetlands channel off the California coast. Actually, this is nothing like Free Willy, but when you think of marine mammals and miraculous rescues, what other film springs to mind?
