A neurotoxin produced by harmful algal blooms in the Indian River Lagoon is causing brain changes in bottlenose dolphins that ...
Dolphins washing up on Florida’s shores may be victims of the same kind of brain degeneration seen in humans with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers discovered that cyanobacterial toxins—worsened by ...
Scientists studied 20 common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus) that were stranded in the IRL, using Triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (QqQ or TQMS). It is a razor-sharp ...
Dolphins exposed to cyanobacterial toxins show Alzheimer’s-like brain damage and disorientation, which may explain mysterious strandings.