A line from the crab trap had been wrapped so tightly around her tail that it had cut off the circulation. The tissue was necrotic: the dolphin's ... of three-dimensional images and scans of ...

If the logistics can be worked out, Winter’s prosthesis would be the first for a dolphin who lost its tail and the key joint that allows it to move in powerful up-and-down strokes.

If the logistics can be worked out, Winter's prosthesis would be the first for a dolphin who lost its tail and the key joint that allows it to move in powerful up and down strokes. Another dolphin ...

Handlers slide the sleeve over Winter’s stump and move her tail in up and down motions, teaching her how to swim like a normal dolphin when the prosthesis is attached. It is a slow process.

And more people have decided not to give up. All this because of a friendly dolphin, and those who cared enough to keep her alive with the first prosthetic dolphin tail.

The apparent tail of a dolphin washed up on the same stretch of New Jersey beach where a mauled bottlenose carcass was found over the weekend. Alicia Anderer found the severed tail while walking ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for The Explainer’s free daily podcast on iTunes. A baby dolphin with a stump for a tail may get a prosthesis, according to her ...

to watch any dolphin swim - is pure joy. For decades, she delighted children visiting an aquarium in Okinawa until a mysterious disease began eating away her tail fin. To save her life ...

As Dolphin Tale is released in theatres this week, INSIDE EDITION caught up with the real life dolphin ... But the sad news is, she's missing her tail fin.

The animal star of the Dolphin Tail movies, Winter ... "There are some people here who have literally grown up with this animal, and they are sitting in corners crying." The CMA's statement ...