You can't make this stuff up:

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A dolphin that lost her tail near Cape Canaveral may be getting a new artificial one.

Winter, a 10-month-old bottlenose dolphin, was found in December and is now being cared for at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

Officials there hope to raise enough money -- about $100,000 -- to help pay for a rare operation so Winter can receive an artificial tail.

She has learned to swim and play without her tail that she lost in crab trap line. Instead of swimming up and down like a regular dolphin, she is swimming from side to side like a shark.
A Japanese dolphin was given an artificial tail prosthesis in 2004.