A bottlenose dolphin safely delivered a calf early Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth in more than a decade at the west suburban zoo.

WASHINGTON — Brookfield Zoo Chicago is mourning the sudden death of its four-day-old bottlenose dolphin calf. The male bottlenose dolphin was the first born at the facility in over a decade. According ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s newly born bottlenose dolphin, the first to be born there since 2014, has died, the zoo announced on Thursday. The dolphin was born last Saturday morning ...

The calf was born on Oct. 29, but he “began to decline rapidly” three days later on Nov. 1, according to the zoo “Every effort was made to intervene and improve the dolphin’s chances of survival, but ...