BP Oil Spill May Have Contributed to Dolphin Deaths, Study Finds
When you purchase through inter-group communication on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . The 2010 BP oil spillway contributed to an remarkably high death pace for dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico , a newfangled study suggests . Between January and April 2011 , 186 dead bottlenose dolphins lave ashore between Louisiana and western Florida . Most alarmingly , almost half of these casualties were calf , which is more than double the usual proportion of young to old dolphins found dead ....