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Dorset Breeding Colony Overjoyed by First Seahorse Baby
Many people are happy, and patting themselves on the back after finding the first baby sea horse at one of the leading breeding colonies in Dorset.
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Sea Urchins Put To Test in Cleaning Up Algae
The coral reefs off of Hawaii are being smothered by tons of algae, and efforts have been made to help solve this dilemma. The answer comes from an unlikely source.. Sea Urchins.
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New Kind Of Armored Catfish Eats Wood?
An amazonian catfish, which also happens to be armored, has been discovered and it doesn’t eat the usual thing… Nope, this one eats wood. This interesting catfish will eat wood from logs floating around, or if it gets particularly hungry, even the excrement of its neighboring catfish.
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Rare “Ribbon Fish” Fish Makes Way to Aquarium
An interesting “ribbon” fish has made its way to an aquarium, after being reeled in accidentally by fisherman
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Fraser sockeye count climbs to 30 million
The Fraser River is being overrun by sockeye salmon. Officials from the fishery are now estimating that the number of sockeye returning has climbed to roughly 30 million, which is a 5 million increase from their previous count of 25 million earlier this week.
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Trawlermen from Shetland Illegally Reeled in 15M GPB Worth of Herring and Mackeral
Six skippers are facing unlimited fines and confiscation orders to the tune of millions of pounds after admitting they breached fishing quotas.
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Death From Jellyfish-Sting, First in Europe
Authorities have said that a woman had a deadly reaction and died after being stung by a jellyfish on an Italian beach. Maria Farcus, 69, is thought to be the first such case of a person dying of a jellyfish-sting in Europe.
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At long last, a vaccine offers hope of preventing Ich
According to new research presented by Dehai Xu, Ph.D. at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS)*, a vaccine against the feared ich disease might be available in the foreseeable future.
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Scientists Hot on the Trail of Huge, Underwater Oil Plume In Gulf Of Mexico
Researchers backed by the NSF (National Science Foundation) and in conjunction with the WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) have discovered a plume of hydrocarbons which is more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and is thought to be 22 miles long at minimum. This plume is the residue of the…
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Hawaiian Coral Can be Safely Thawed in 1,000 Years!
Researchers from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University and the Smithsonian have brought the first frozen Hawaiian coral bank into existence to try and prevent them from becoming extinct and to preserve their diverse population in Hawaii.
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Madagascar Alarmed at Self-Cloning Crayfish Invasion
An invading rare kind of self-cloning crayfish has been discovered in Madagascar, and is causing all sorts of alarm among researchers.
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Tour Operators Who use Chum to Lure Sharks Challenge Law
Some tour operators, who specialize in shark tours, who were accused of chumming off the North Shore have commented they plan to challenge the preposterous law.
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Researchers Delving into Sea Slug Poison
A group of researchers are going to meet sometime this week, and attempt to delve into the mysterious poison which has been discovered in sea slugs, which have made an appearance on Auckland’s shores this past winter.
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80% Of Oil From the Gulf Of Mexico Spill Is Still Lurking About: “The Oil Is Still Out There”
The Georgia Sea Grant and the University of Georgia have released a report which draws the conclusion that somewhere in the vicinity of 80% of the oil which was released into the Gulf Of Mexico from the BP spill has not been cleaned up, and is still a threat to the environment.
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The Conundrum of the Gap in the Spine of the Barbeled Dragonfish Finally Solved
The conundrum of why a particular group of deep sea fish have a gap between their skull and spinal columns has finally been solved by a crack team of researchers, which include representatives from the Natural History Museum.
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Sea Otter Numbers Are Down in California Survey Says
After 10 years of a steady recovery, the southern sea otter – a species on the federal list as being threatened – populations are declining for the second year running, so says a population survey conducted by researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Costa Rican Boat Caught With Hand in Cookie Jar: Illegally Fishing in the Galapagos
The navy in Ecuador took charge of a fishing boat, of Costa Rican origin dubbed the Rosa I, which had a bountiful cargo of shark meat. This boat was seized in the Galapagos Islands, and an investigation is underway to determine whether the shark came from the archipelago, where shark fishing has been outlawed.
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Coral Dies After Massive Indonesia Bleaching: “A Disappointing Development”
The Wildlife Conservation Society has recently released an initial report stating that there was a drastic rise in the surface temperatures in the waters of Indonesia, and has caused a massive bleaching event which has really sent coral populations into a tail spin.
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Daredevil Freediver Aiming for Record of 305 Meter Plunge
Herbert Nitsch, a daredevil freediver, is getting ready to break his own world record by taking 1000 foot dive toward the bottom of the ocean, taking in only a single breath of air while contracting his lungs to the size of a tennis ball.
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Two-Headed Turtle in Phuket Needs Name
Well, this is certainly interesting news. It appears that a two-headed turtle has gripped the attention of Phuket, and may turn into a full blow two-headed turtle mania if the media coverage is any indication.
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More Than 700 Tourists Attacked by Jellyfish in Spain!
It has been reported that in the warm, sunny, and usually tranquil beaches of Spain that at least 700 tourists have been stung by small, transparent jellyfish this past week, leading the local officials to rapidly post up warning signs.
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Fisherman Robbed of His Catch… By a Frog?
In a strange turn of events, a fisherman was left speechless after an enterprising frog hopped into his net, and proceeded to swallow his hard earned fish whole.
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Rare “Princess” Turtle Makes Way Home After 32 Years
Well, they say turtles are slow, but this particular beauty made a surprise comeback to a Malaysian beach after an astonishing 32 years. A report issued Friday hailed this return as a “miracle” by conservationists and rekindling hope that the endangered species is not quite gone yet.
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Rare Corals Being Cultivated in Offshore Nurseries to Help Depleted Reefs
An accidental find just off of Key Largo has lead to farms being created for delicate, yet ever so important, species of coral.
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Oiled Marshes Showing Signs of Recovery
Photographers are shooting photos of marsh grass and brushes of mangrove tree which are already showing a marked improvement, in a bay where just mere months ago, the same photographers were shooting images of dying pelicans smothered in the oppressie black oil from the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill.
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Male Pond Skaters Don’t Take “NO” For an Answer
And you think this sort of thing only happens in people society… Apparently the male pond skaters play on the fears of females to coerce them into having sexual intercourse. The fear that they tap into is the fear of predators.
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15 Year Old Claims Cops Forced Him to Leave Shark On the Beach to Die
A 15 year old resident and his cohorts are claiming that the police told them to take the shark out of the water and leave it on the beach to die. The youngsters admonish that they wanted to save the poor thing, by pushing it back out into the water, but they did as they…
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Inuit Put a Halt on German-Canadian Arctic Tests
A Canadian judge in the northern province of Nunavut has curtailed the plans of several joint German-Canadian Arctic experiments after Inuit residents commented that the testing could harm marine life, sources from within the government revealed on Monday.
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Filipino Government Lays the Smackdown on People Poaching Sea Turtles
Two years after their detainment, 13 poachers, from Vietnam, who were caught with the dead bodies of 101 endangered Hawksbill turtles (known in scientific circles as Eretmochelys imbricata) near El Nido, northern Palawan, in the Philippines, have finally been convicted and sentenced to hefty fines along with some jail time.
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LA Museum: 85 Million Year Old Sea Monster Featured
One of the most intriguing and hardiest of marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, thrived in the Cretaceous Period, which is somewhere in the vicinity of 85 million years ago, and it is believed to have gotten around much like an eel does.
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U.S. Sportfishing Boat Attacked by Communists Off Costa Rica
A United States based world fisheries conservation association is gunning for punishment to be dished out, after a sportfishing boat was attacked by a commercial Venezuelan tuna purse seining boat and a helicopter off of Costa Rica’s coast.
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Why the Cries That BP Made the Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History, May Just Be Most Cynical Spin Campaign
How big is the disaster, really.
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New Outlet to Report Your Sightings of Aliens
For our UK readers: Have you ever found a foreign species and ever wondered what could be done about the situation? Wonder no more! You can now do your bit to help out the environment in the UK by reporting your sightings of these creatures.
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Census Reveals that Japanese and Australian Waters, Hiding Secrets
Japan along with Australia have some of the world’s most diverse oceans, however thousands of the marvelous creatures in their deeps, remain unknown to man, and global warming is a major concern, suggests a newly performed census.
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Oil Spill Stopped, Yet More Birds than Ever are Greased up and Ready to Go
It has been over 3 weeks since BP has capped its spewing oil well. The skimming operations to help clean up the mess have all but ground to a halt, and researchers are saying that less than a third of the oil remains in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Vintage Booze Found in Shipwreck yet to be Named
“For this wine, time has stood still,” commented chief cellarman of Veuve-Clicquot, after swirling the two hundred year old wine around in his mouth. This spectacular find was found off of Sweden.
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Asian Carp Made its Home In Great Lake Waters
This past June a bighead carp was reeled in near Lake Michigan, and it seems highly likely that it spent just about its entire life in the Great Lakes.
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Latest Sign of Global Warming… Oyster Herpes?
“New strain of Oyster Herpes could kill off 80 percent of an oyster bed inside a week, experts have claimed”
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Rather Strange Orange Lobster Saved From the Pot
Normally, lobsters are a brownish-green color when they are alive, and they turn orange when they have been cooked. That being the case, a strange live reddish-orange lobster has been sighted in the UK.
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Fish Evolve Super Fast! Only 3 Years to Adapt to Colder Temperatures
Researchers with the University of British Columbia have witnessed one of the most rapid evolutionary cycles ever recorded amongst populations in the wild. It took just 3 short years, for the stickleback fish to develop a tolerance for frigid waters.
