Providing care to the Sperm Whale UPDATE: The preliminary cause of stranding for the sperm whale is starvation. The beached whale was emaciated (very thin). Emaciation is the end point of starvation and means the whale had depleted fats and skeletal muscle. Tissue samples were submitted for microscopic analysis (histology and cytology) and biotoxicology. Results from these diagnostic tests have further confirmed starvation as the immediate cause of stranding. While starvation

On November 3rd LMMN received a call about a dead dolphin at the north end of folly beach. Lauren Rust and Tracy Kowalczyk reported to...

Over the Memorial day weekend the LMMN team received a phone call of a dead dolphin in the Folly River. When the team arrived to the...

On May 3rd, we got a report from Jerry Tupacz (USFW) regarding a dead whale in Cape Romain. Photos provided confirmed it was a freshly...

Response Around 5 pm on April 4th, Lauren Rust received a call at approximately regarding a live stranded “dolphin” on Sullivan’s Island....

On the afternoon of March 19th, just as our team finished up a necropsy on a dolphin recovered in Kiawah, we were notified of another...

On the morning of March 19th, we were notified of a dead dolphin on the beach on Kiawah Island. Nicole and Colin Perkins-Taylor...

We received a call on the evening of March 15th about a deceased dolphin stranded near the Palmetto Bluff neighborhood in Bluffton. We...

On February 21st, we were notified by the SCNDR aerial survey team about a deceased whale in nearshore waters of South Carolina (location...

We received a text from Amber Kuehn (LMMN volunteer) on 29 January 2024 about a small, dead bottlenose dolphin near Forest Beach on...

We received a call from Janet Thibault with SCDNR on 16 January 2024 about a deceased dolphin on the beach in front of the Ocean Course...

On the afternoon of December 5th, while Nicole and Brooke were responding to a dolphin in N Myrtle Beach, we got a call from USCB dolphin...

A deceased bottlenose dolphin calf was reported to us on November 27th in Bluffton. This dolphin was found floating near a dock. Our HHI...

On Sunday, November 19th, we were notified of a deceased dolphin floating in the Ashley River. The boaters who called were kind enough to...

We received a call early in the morning on November 13th regarding a dead baby dolphin. Pictures confirmed this was a neonate bottlenose...

On the evening of October 23rd, we were notified about a deceased dolphin on Folly Beach. LMMN stranding tech, Nicole Principe, and NOAA...

On September 30th, LMMN was notified that a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) had stranded alive the previous night on Litchfield...

On Labor Day, our team was notified by Amber Kuehn, head of sea turtle patrol on HHI and LMMN volunteer, that there was a dead bottlenose...

We got a call on August 20th regarding a dead dolphin on North East Kiawah Island. Brooke jumped into action and coordinated with...

Warning - Graphic Content On the evening of August 6th, we were notified that there was a dead bottlenose dolphin in an oyster bed off...