On Wednesday, June 4, News 13 broke the story about the four Gulf World Marine Park dolphins being relocated to the ...

Sonar, originally SONAR, an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging, allows animals (or man-made devices like submarines) to use sound waves — specifically, sound propagation — to detect objects, ...

It remained undisturbed until years later when graduate student Makayla Guinn was interested in studying dolphin tissue samples. Guinn was attempting to research dolphin hormones by using an ...

So, they decided to tow it back to campus to study. Years later, when graduate student Makayla Guinn needed dolphin tissue samples for her research on hormones, the biologists retrieved some ...

She towed the dolphin back to her lab on campus and placed the animal in a freezer, expecting to eventually dissect it or use it for research. Two years ago, Orbach offered Baffin Bay tissue ...

Orbach towed the dolphin back to her lab on campus and placed the animal into a freezer, expecting to eventually dissect the animal or to use it for research. Two years ago, Orbach offered tissue ...

Out of 89 dolphins tested in the Gulf of Mexico, 30 had some form of pharmaceutical in their bodies, and 18 had fentanyl in their tissues. More ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS In their study ...

"We're going to look deeper at very specific compounds that we would expect to find based on their chemical properties and their ability to accumulate in the blubber tissue of dolphins," Guinn said.

a muscle relaxant and a sedative — and found that the sample tissue contained traces of all three. MORE: 125 dolphins stranded in 'difficult' location on Massachusetts beach, animal welfare ...