The solution for the dolphin – dubbed Winter – may be a prosthetic tail. If the logistics can be worked out, Winter’s prosthesis would be the first for a dolphin who lost its tail and the ...

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

McCulloch, director of dolphin and whale research at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, decided to channel his anger into a solution: a prosthetic tail.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Prosthetic specialist Kevin Carroll travels the country tackling the toughest human amputation cases, so it was only natural that he was also drawn to Winter — the only ...

Prosthetic specialist Kevin Carroll travels the country tackling the toughest human amputation cases, so it was only natural that he was also drawn to Winter — the only known dolphin to survive ...

In 1995, a bottlenose dolphin named Billie leaped from the water of Port River, Australia, and began “tail-walking” in circles around Mike Bossley’s boat. Her tail was pumping vigorously ...

A dolphin with a missing tail has been found washed up on a U.K beach, in the exact same spot a Greenland shark was found dead just a few months ago. Rosie Woodroffe—a biologist at the ...

A dolphin named Fuji, who lives in a Japanese aquarium, had her tail amputated as the result of a skin disease. Then she became dangerously overweight. So her handler got a friend at the tire ...

Winter, an injured dolphin who learned to swim with a prosthetic tail and whose story served as the inspiration for two heartwarming films, died Thursday, according to the Clearwater Marine ...

An ancient fossil fills a missing link in the crocodile family tree—where they branched out and either evolved into armored creatures with limbs made for walking, or returned to the water to ...

The community’s rallying to save a dolphin in distress! Its tail is trapped in fishing line and people are worried time is running out before its tail could be gone for good. FOX 35's Stephanie ...

The apparent tail of a dolphin washed up on the same stretch of North Wildwood beach where a mauled bottlenose carcass was found over the weekend.