Police are investigating the discovery of a dead dolphin found Tuesday morning after it washed up on a Quogue beach.

Quogue police and the Southampton Town Marine Bureau found the mammal and notified the New York Marine Rescue in Riverhead, after responding to an 8:45 a.m. report of a dolphin in distress on the beach in front of a home off Dune Road.

The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS) assumed control of the dolphin's carcass. Marine biologists were performing a necropsy to determine the cause of death and planned to bury the dolphin Tuesday afternoon.

AMSEAS Chief Scientist Robert DiGiovanni said the mammal was an eight-foot common dolphin with no visible signs of trauma. Testing from the necropsy can take several weeks to months, he said.

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