Dolphin Ashore

A mysterious, decaying marine creature washed up on a beach in Papua New Guinea. Experts believe it's a marine mammal, but can't identify it.

A dead dolphin was found washed ashore Mumbai's Juhu beach on Friday morning, a civic official said.

Fishermen battled on Sunday to save dozens of injured dolphins washed ashore in Mauritius where in recent days at least 40 of the animals were found dead in a lagoon near the site of an oil spill from a Japanese bulk carrier which struck a coral reef.

Two good Samaritans in Odisha saved an Irrawaddy dolphin that had washed ashore by putting it back into the sea. The incident took place at Puri district's Beleswar beach on Tuesday morning.

Fishermen in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin spent hours trying to rescue over 20 dolphins that washed ashore and got stranded on the beach along a tiny fishing hamlet called Punnakayal on Monday night. Despite their best efforts, however, four of the dolphins died. Marine experts are now performing post-mortems on the dolphins to determine the exact cause ...

It was a deadly start to the new year, after the city saw another dolphin wash ashore, at Nariman Point. Dead on arrival around 1.30 am, it was first spotted by assistant inspector Jeevan Babar, who was on night duty in the area. "After spotting it, I went down near the tripods and brought it up. There was nobody around to help," he said.

The group carried and released all the dolphins safely back into the sea after they were stranded on Kolam beach near Virar during low tide

A dead dolphin has washed ashore in Bhoigaon Beach in Vasai on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Concern over rising levels of water pollution has once again gripped Mumbai after a dead dolphin washed ashore Manori beach on Monday. While a toxicology report stating the cause of death is yet to be released, experts are concerned over the increasing number of such incidents in India's maximum city.

More people, perhaps, have seen dolphins in the city in the past week or so, than they might've seen in their entire lifetime. Another dead dolphin washed ashore Marine Drive on Monday, and this time, the civic body took nearly 15 hours to lift its body from the rocks.

The carcass of a 10-foot-long humpback dolphin washed ashore at Marine Drive around 4pm yesterday. Instead of informing forest department officials, BMC workers took the body to the Deonar dumpyard.

A mysterious, decaying marine creature washed up on a beach in Papua New Guinea. Experts believe it's a marine mammal, but can't identify it.

A dead dolphin was found washed ashore Mumbai's Juhu beach on Friday morning, a civic official said.

Fishermen battled on Sunday to save dozens of injured dolphins washed ashore in Mauritius where in recent days at least 40 of the animals were found dead in a lagoon near the site of an oil spill from a Japanese bulk carrier which struck a coral reef.

Two good Samaritans in Odisha saved an Irrawaddy dolphin that had washed ashore by putting it back into the sea. The incident took place at Puri district's Beleswar beach on Tuesday morning.

Fishermen in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin spent hours trying to rescue over 20 dolphins that washed ashore and got stranded on the beach along a tiny fishing hamlet called Punnakayal on Monday night. Despite their best efforts, however, four of the dolphins died. Marine experts are now performing post-mortems on the dolphins to determine the exact cause ...

It was a deadly start to the new year, after the city saw another dolphin wash ashore, at Nariman Point. Dead on arrival around 1.30 am, it was first spotted by assistant inspector Jeevan Babar, who was on night duty in the area. "After spotting it, I went down near the tripods and brought it up. There was nobody around to help," he said.

The group carried and released all the dolphins safely back into the sea after they were stranded on Kolam beach near Virar during low tide

A dead dolphin has washed ashore in Bhoigaon Beach in Vasai on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Concern over rising levels of water pollution has once again gripped Mumbai after a dead dolphin washed ashore Manori beach on Monday. While a toxicology report stating the cause of death is yet to be released, experts are concerned over the increasing number of such incidents in India's maximum city.

More people, perhaps, have seen dolphins in the city in the past week or so, than they might've seen in their entire lifetime. Another dead dolphin washed ashore Marine Drive on Monday, and this time, the civic body took nearly 15 hours to lift its body from the rocks.

The carcass of a 10-foot-long humpback dolphin washed ashore at Marine Drive around 4pm yesterday. Instead of informing forest department officials, BMC workers took the body to the Deonar dumpyard.