Shocking report: Deep Horizon spill caused dolphin deaths to skyrocket

Shocking report: Deep Horizon spill caused dolphin deaths to skyrocket

Dolphins suffered awful injuries from the massive 2010 oil spill, including lesions to their lungs and adrenal glands.

A huge number of dolphins were killed by the Deep Horizon oil spill, according to alarming new research.

Scientists were looking into the large quantity of bottlenose dolphin carcasses that have been washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, and they determined that exposure to Deep Horizon oil is the cause of their deaths in many cases, according to a Daily Mail report.

They found that the dolphins had terrible injuries to their bodies, including lesions within their lungs and problems with adrenal glands, both of which are indicative of exposure to petroleum.

Researchers have determined that a total of 1,281 dolphins and whales have washed ashore along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico since the April 2010 explosion at an off-shore BP-owned drilling rig known as Deepwater Horizon, which sank and released a vast quantity of oil into the sea.

Authorities already know that a large amount of dolphins died soon after swimming through gigantic oil slick left by Deep Horizon. It took 87 days for the oil that was gushing up from the sea floor to be shut off. The accident killed 11 workers and thousands upon thousands of birds and turtles, as well as shut down the fishing industry that the Gulf Coast depends on.

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