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Stranded dolphins a surprise to rescuers

Volunteers and staff members from the Cape Cod Stranding Network and New England Aquarium, as well as Massachusetts Environmental Police, yesterday loaded six dolphins that beached and died on Wollaston Beach . Volunteers and staff members from the Cape Cod Stranding Network and New England Aquarium, as well as Massachusetts Environmental Police, yesterday loaded six dolphins that beached and died on Wollaston Beach . (tom herde/globe staff)
By April Simpson
Globe Staff / January 15, 2007

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Eight adult-sized dolphins beached themselves on a 450-foot stretch of Wollaston Beach yesterday, in what rescuers say is the first stranding of a pod of dolphins along Boston Harbor in at least 15 years. Six of them died, and two were helped back into the water. (Full article: 576 words)

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