2013 was a grim year for dolphins in Florida. That year, bottlenose dolphins were dying en masse in the Indian River Lagoon ...

Less seagrass means fewer fish, and thus less food for dolphins ... Essentially, the dolphins had fewer species to eat, and the prey that remained was not as nourishing. The chemical analysis ...

Bottlenose dolphins are large, long-lived animals that eat relatively large amounts of many different ... they ate more sea bream and less ladyfish — a more energy-dense fish associated with seagrass.