Winter’s tail spawns a happy ever after ending

THE injured dolphin they called Winter couldn’t have come along at a better time for Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

The non-profit public aquarium was ready to go belly-up at the end of 2005 when the baby bottlenose dolphin was brought there after getting her tail entangled in a crab-trap line.

She lived, but her tail fluke withered away, forcing the young animal to learn how to swim with just a stump.