{"id":481819,"date":"2026-03-18T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481819\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:47:09","slug":"disbelief-after-men-find-dolphin-on-riverbank-in-cambridgeshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481819\/","title":{"rendered":"Disbelief after men find dolphin on riverbank in Cambridgeshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A father and son said they were in &#8220;disbelief&#8221; after finding a dead dolphin on a riverbank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archie Wayman and his dad Glen Wayman came across the animal next to the New Bedford River in Mepal, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday while driving home from work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archie said his dad spotted the common dolphin while driving on the A142. He said: &#8220;We were in disbelief, I thought he was winding me up to start with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Jarvis, director of welfare and conservation at British Divers Marine Life Rescue, said they had previously had a call about the dolphin on Thursday and &#8220;one of our volunteers went out to monitor it, but sadly that was the last time we saw it alive&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father and son said they were in &#8220;disbelief&#8221; after finding a dead dolphin on a riverbank. Archie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-481819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}