Marine biologists from Gulfport rushed to North Bay Road in South Baldwin County when a dead baby bottle-nosed dolphin was found floating in Bon Secour Bay. The scientists aren't sure how the dolphin died and aren't ruling out oil as a possible cause of death.
Scientists believe the dolphin was still-born or possibly aborted. They conducted on-site tests and couldn't find external oil present. The biologists took tissue samples of the baby dolphin and will check for hydro-carbons, an oil by-product, back at their Mississippi lab.
30 dead dolphins, including 24 babies, have washed up on beaches in Alabama and Mississippi since the beginning of the year.
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