The museum has 13,883 common dolphin specimens, 519 of which are long-beaked dolphins. The oldest dolphin skull is from 1907. Measuring and sorting the skulls was tedious work.

A young common dolphin was found stranded on Torrance Beach on Tuesday, July 22, but had to be euthanized in spite of the efforts of Los Angeles County lifeguards and San Pedro’s Marine Mammal ...

A “ghostly-looking” white common dolphin was spotted by charter boats off Dana Point’s coastline on Tuesday, July 23, believed to have leucism, a rare loss of skin pigmentation. The unusual ...