Dolphin’s stabbing death investigated by Florida wildlife officials

Necropsy suggests marine mammal was impaled in the head with a spear-like object' while being illegally fed

Wildlife officials in Florida are investigating the mysterious death of a bottlenose dolphin that was recovered on a beach with an apparent stab wound to the head.

The mammal, which was found on Fort Myers beach in the south-west of the state on 24 March, is believed to have been killed deliberately, probably while it was being fed illegally by humans.