The eight-foot-long bottlenose dolphin was found dead with its head missing last month on the shore of Lea-Hutaff Island, N.C ...

Federal marine law enforcement is investigating after a dolphin was found dead with its head cut off along the North Carolina ...

A cause of death for the bottlenose dolphin hasn’t been confirmed, but a necropsy revealed it was infected with brucellosis, ...

Bottlenose dolphins are a protected species known to reach 1,400 pounds and live up to 60 years in U.S. waters, NOAA says. This is not the dolphin that was found with its head missing on a North ...