Several shark sightings, attacks reports along coast
Shark sightings and attacks are up this year over last year. Experts believe the weather is impacting how sharks hunt and feed and that's putting them in closer contact with people.
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- The Guardian
‘Catastrophic failure’ kills 21,000 fish at California university
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SeaWorld's Got a Whale of a Problem
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There are 3 types of rattlesnakes found in NC. Here’s how to identify them.
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- The Salinas Californian
Pacific Grove paddleboarder, dog escape injury in scary shark encounter
A paddleboarder and his dog were able to escape injury when a shark attacked their board at Lovers Point Beach, shutting down the popular beach.
- FTW Outdoors
Humpback whale picks up unintended passenger; photos
A Monterey Bay photographer on Saturday shared images showing a sea lion perched on the belly of a humpback whale.
- The Conversation
The Soviet Union once hunted endangered whales to the brink of extinction – but its scientists opposed whaling and secretly tracked its toll
Soviet whalers manning mechanized harpoons in 1960. Marka/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesEvery year, an estimated 13 million people go whale-watching around the world, marveling at the sight of the largest animals ever to inhabit Earth. It’s a dramatic reversal from a century ago, when few people ever saw a living whale. The creatures are still recovering from massive industrial-scale hunting that nearly wiped out several species in the 20th century. The history of whaling shows how huma
- LA Times
'El Jefe' the jaguar, famed in U.S., photographed in Mexico
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'The Monarch Whisperer': How a Solon woman is doing her part to keep butterflies from dwindling
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- TheGrio
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes, are […] The post From Kenya to the Serengeti to Kruger National Park, African lions and elephants under severe climate threat appeared first on TheGrio.
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Life gradually returns a year after fire chars Sierra Nevada
Firefighters extinguish the last embers. A wildfire in the California wilderness has come to an end, and what’s left behind is a blackened landscape of skeletal pines and leafless oaks, scorched meadows and ashen stumps where saplings once stood. One year after a wind-whipped wildfire charged across a craggy mountainside above Lone Pine, California, flashes of new growth are emerging in this still-charred corner of the Inyo National Forest, a hiking, camping and fishing playground about 350 miles (563 km) southeast of San Francisco.
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Once Feared Extinct, a Rare Hummingbird Is Rediscovered In Colombia
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Phoenix Zoo seeks help naming 21 newborn, endangered black-footed ferrets
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Why are more spotted lanternflies in some areas of PA but not others? Researchers aren’t sure
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Feathered jewels on a spinning chandelier: White pelicans have made an astonishing recovery in Wisconsin
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New Zealand rescuers save stranded dolphins
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Fritz or Ferguson? Cincinnati Zoo narrows baby hippo names down to two
The hippo team at the Cincinnati Zoo has narrowed down 90,000 possible names for its newest baby hippo.
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Over 150 endangered vultures poisoned to death in southern Africa
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