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Dead dolphin washes up at Smith Point Park

The carcass of a bottlenose dolphin washed up at Smith Point Park on Fire Island about 1 p.m. Thursday, officials said.

"It had been dead for 48 hours and was badly scavenged, so there was little we could determine," said Richard DiGiovanni, director of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.

He said a necropsy would be performed on the 8-foot dolphin in the coming...

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