Dead dolphin calves found in Mississippi, Alabama

GULFPORT, Mississippi -- A worrisome number of dead baby dolphins has been discovered on Mississippi and Alabama beaches this month, said scientists who study the species. Solangi said, "In the 20 years of data that I've kept and the 30 years of my history, I have not seen these calves dying in these numbers in these two months of January and February." There are 3,000 to 5,000 dolphins in the waters off Mississippi and Alabama, he said. "They are at the top of the food chain," Solangi said. "They are the biological indicator of the environment. If they are healthy, the environment is healthy."

Dolphins Dying In Oil Soaked Gulf

Baby dolphins are washing up dead along the oil-soaked US Gulf Coast at more than 10 times the normal rate in the first birthing season since the BP disaster, researchers said. Some 17 baby dolphin corpses have been found along the shorelines of Alabama and Mississippi in the past two weeks, The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies said.

Scientist finds Gulf bottom oily, dead

WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.