News tagged with marine animal rescue

Calif. rescuers hope dolphin finds way back to sea

(AP) -- A wayward dolphin that has spent two days in a narrow wetlands channel along the southern California coast was on its way out to the ocean Saturday when it suddenly turned tail and swam back to shallow ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oil slick threatens birds and marine animals

Its long, brown neck held firmly in a blue towel, the northern gannet struggled for freedom, unaware of how very lucky it is to have been found swimming in a sea of oil off the Louisiana coast.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 02, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Rescuers fail to save beached whales in Florida

Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon when a beached mother whale was reunited with her calf on a southern Florida beach, the mother frantically thrashing about and splashing water into the air.

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Northern California fishermen free entangled whale

(AP) -- Crab fisherman Mark Anello noticed something odd near his boat off the Northern California coast: three buoys floating nearby were moving. Motoring closer he saw a gray whale tangled in a large fishing ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Official: Dolphin deaths in Peru still a mystery

(AP) -- Peruvian authorities are still trying to unravel the mystery of why hundreds of dolphins ended up dead on beaches in the country over the past 2 1/2 months.

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created Apr 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Search on for entangled whale off Calif. coast

(AP) -- Boats and helicopters scoured the Southern California waters Wednesday for a 40-foot gray whale that became tangled in fishing line while migrating the wrong way.

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created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study amplifies understanding of hearing in baleen whales

For decades, scientists have known that dolphins and other toothed whales have specialized fats associated with their jaws, which efficiently convey sound waves from the ocean to their ears. But until now, the hearing systems ...

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created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kidnapped penguin 'Dirk' rescued from sharks, dogs

Dirk, a fairy penguin stolen from an Australian marine park, has been safely returned, but not before being hounded by a dog and chased by another animal, possibly a shark.

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created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Why is Great Barrier Reef 'not so great'

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at James Cook University have questioned why coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef has continued to decline when it is recognised as “the best managed coral reef system in the world”.

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created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Entangled gray whale off Calif. freed after chase

(AP) -- A migrating gray whale with debris wrapped around its tail was finally freed after rescuers in a small boat chased it along the Southern California coast so they could cut away the fishing traps and ...

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created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UA engineer launches robotic planetary Lake Lander

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfgang Fink of the University of Arizona department of electrical and computer engineering has developed an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this planet and others.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Scientists see big 'scientific event' as Pacific whales turn up far from home

When scientists fired a cigar-sized satellite tag into the blubber of a western gray whale off Russia's Sakhalin Island in September, they expected to track her along Asia's Pacific shoreline down to the South China Sea.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'

A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2


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