OFFICIALS: ENCOURAGING SIGN FOR 24 STRANDED WHALES
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO Vultures feed off the carcasses of an adult whale and and a calf ,Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Highland Beach in the Everglades National Park, Fla. Wildlife…
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New flasher wrasse species discovered in Indonesia
This photo taken on July 28, 2013, released by the Conservation International, shows a new fish of the flasher wrasse species, in Indonesia. A new fish of the flasher wrasse…
CALIFORNIA ‘SEA SERPENTS’ WAS EGG-CARRYING FEMALE
By ALICIA CHANG This Friday Oct. 18, 2013 image provided by Mark Bussey shows an oarfish that washed up on the beach near Oceanside, Calif. This rare, snakelike oarfish measured…
WAVE OF JELLYFISH SHUTS DOWN SWEDISH NUKE REACTOR
By GARY PEACH FILE – In this May 22, 2008 file photo, an exterior view of the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Oskarshamn, southeastern Sweden. Officials at OKG, which runs…
ALASKA FISHERMEN PROTEST WAL-MART DECISION
By MARK THIESSEN John Renner, a fisherman from Cordova, Alaska, protests outside a Wal-Mart in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. He and other fishermen protested against Wal-Mart’s corporate…
NYAD MAKES 1ST CUBA-FLA. SWIM WITHOUT A SHARK CAGE
By JENNIFER KAY In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau Diana Nyad emerges from the Atlantic Ocean after completing a 111-mile swim from Cuba to Key West,…