Wildlife watchers submit 5,000 photos of Yorkshire dolphins (www.bbc.com)

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Wildlife watchers have been praised for helping scientists accurately explore which individual bottlenose dolphins are now found along the Yorkshire coastline.

The animals, which belong to a population known to the east coast of Scotland, are now regularly spotted as far south as Scarborough, Whitby and Bridlington.

Researchers said photographs sent to them by members of the public have been used to identify individual dolphins by the notches and other marks on their dorsal fins.

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