The bloody dolphin that washed up dead in Astoria last week was likely struck and killed by a boat — which it may have been too sick to dodge as it was battling kidney stones, animal experts said.

Already in 2025 — outside of migration season — the battered bodies of a juvenile humpback whale and a short-beaked dolphin washed up on New York beaches with wounds indicative of boat strikes.

The most common dolphin species in North Carolina are bottlenose dolphins, Atlantic spotted dolphins, and short-beaked common dolphins. Dolphins can be spotted year-round in North Carolina but are ...

No one was badly hurt when the 3.4-meter (11-foot) bottlenose dolphin jumped aboard the open-top boat Friday, said Dean Harrison, the owner of the nearly 16-foot vessel.