{"id":726321,"date":"2026-08-03T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726321\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:52:08","slug":"study-rissos-dolphins-come-from-same-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726321\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Risso&#8217;s dolphins come from same population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Risso&#8217;s dolphins around the British Isles are part of a single population and are genetically distinct from those elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists studied the DNA of stranded dolphins in England, Scotland and Wales from1992 to 2016 and said there were &#8220;no significant genetic differences&#8221; between the animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dolphins have tall dorsal fins and distinctive scarring on their grey bodies and  more sightings have been recorded off Cornwall, attracted by food, it is thought. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicola Hodgins, from marine charity Mara and a visiting fellow at the University of Exeter, said skin and tissue samples from the dolphins provided &#8220;an amazing amount of information&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Risso&#8217;s dolphins around the British Isles are part of a single population and are genetically distinct from those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-726321","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\/726321","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=726321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}