The Cape Cod-based marine rescue team responded to the largest recorded stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the Northeast.

The waters off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts are teeming with life, especially dolphins. More than ever, these animals are getting stranded on the shore, with the number spiking this year.

Cape Cod is a global hot spot for dolphin mass strandings. Blame its hook-like shape The cape poses challenges for dolphins that include gently sloping beaches, beaches with fine sand, mud flats ...

Rescuers who helped free more than a hundred dolphins from the Cape Cod shoreline say they’ve confirmed that the mass stranding that began June 28 was the largest involving dolphins in U.S ...

Now they're seeing them on Cape Cod.” Ultimately, Sharp concluded, over the last six years, the number of strandings has increased, and he has no idea when this dolphin stranding season will end.

Included in that total is the largest mass dolphin stranding in American history, in which 102 were rescued on cape Cod and another 44 died this July.

The recent stranding of more than 100 dolphins on Cape Cod, the largest such event involving dolphins in U.S. history, is partly due to the peninsula’s geography, with its gently sloping sand… ...

The recent stranding of more than 100 dolphins on Cape Cod, the largest such event involving dolphins in U.S. history.

An unprecedentedly bad year for beached dolphins on Cape Cod might have to do with warming waters changing the availability of the animals’ food, said scientists hoping to curb the strandings.

Rescuers who helped free more than a hundred dolphins from the Cape Cod shoreline say they’ve confirmed that the mass stranding that began June 28 was the largest involving dolphins in U.S ...