The tragedy of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster is far from over. Every dead dolphin extends the endangered status of the species.

Infants that can't survive outside the uterus and stillborns that were unable to survive in it.  Why does that sound like extinction to me?

Intern Rhiannon Blake, (click title to entry - thank you)  left, and volunteer David Spence of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies photograph one of four dead dolphin calves being recovered from Horn Island before taking tissue samples on Tuesday, February 22 2011.

 Unless we understand and minimize (click here) the consequences of these factors, bottlenose dolphins may not be around for future generations to admire and appreciate.