Americans aren’t the only mammals being afflicted by the illegal drug trade as traces of fentanyl have been found in bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico.
Several researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi found traces of the deadly narcotic in a dead dolphin floating in the water while conducting a routine boating survey in September 2020, KRIS-TV reported Thursday.
The researchers took the dolphin back to their lab; and two years later, when doing a hormone blubber analysis on the carcass, they came across the drug.
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