Cierra Stockard said while on vacation with friends on March 16, she decided to opt for an experience with dolphins known as ...

of attached seaweed from Jongdari’s tail fin. An Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin with marine debris attached to its tail ...

Some observers suggest the incidents can all be tied to the same dolphin, based on wound scars on its tail fin, which can be used to identify an individual, reports BBC News’ Kelly Ng.

The scene was gruesome — the tattered, unnervingly carved-up remains of a dolphin were found lying on a Jersey Shore beach last fall. Its beak, dorsal fin and tail in tact — the rest ...