North Myrtle Beach spokesperson Pat Dowling told WBTW that the city's beach patrol notified the SC Department of Natural Resources and Coastal Carolina University and the city's sanitation division collected the animal and kept it on ice until a professor from the marine sciences department at CCU could collect it to perform a necropsy.
Dowling did not know the name of the professor.
This is not the first dolphin to be found dead this week on the SC coast. According to the South Carolina United Turtle Enthusiasts Facebook page, volunteers retrieved a dead female neonate bottle-nosed dolphin off of South Litchfield at Midway Inlet Tuesday.
Comment: Recently scientists found new, strange 'methane bubbles' in a field on a Russian island. Here's a small sample we've collected of other recent natural outgassing-related events:
- 20 foot high flames spew continuously from borehole in Madhya Pradesh, India
- Mysterious burning crack in the earth releases gas in Chimborazo, Ecuador
- Condamine River's mysterious bubbling methane intensifying in Queensland, Australia
- Frozen methane bubbles trapped under Canadian lake ignited with a match
It is likely that outgassing of methane (and other natural gases) is coming up from deep below the earth's surface. See also:SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions