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How rare was the orca stranding on a Florida beach? It’s the first on record

When Blair Mase arrived at the Palm Coast beach around 9 a.m. Wednesday, she was in disbelief.

Tribune News Service · Jan 12, 2023

Young girl discovers rare 15-million-year-old shark tooth on beach

Molly Sampson was out combing the beach on Christmas day when she made the incredible discovery.

Daily Record · Jan 12, 2023

You could call the INHS’s final winter aerial waterfowl survey an odd duck

The Illinois Natural History Survey’s final winter aerial waterfowl survey was a different one with the Illinois and Mississippi rivers opening up in January.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 12, 2023

Dolphins ‘shout’ over loud underwater noise to work together – study

The intelligent, social animals rely on whistles and echolocation to hunt and reproduce.

The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2023

Become a ‘walrus detective’ and search for them from Space

The project is being launched to find out how walruses are affected by the consequences of climate change.

Evening Standard · Jan 12, 2023

Lobsters versus right whales: The latest chapter in a long quest to make fishing more sustainable

Maine lobster fishermen received a Christmas gift from Congress at the end of 2022: A six-year delay on new federal regulations designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

Stunned walker 'in awe' after stumbling across giant WHALE SKULL washed up on UK beach

Hannah Summerfield, from Deal, in Kent, said she was left in "awe" after spotting what appears to be a whale skull while walking along a beach with her boyfriend

Daily Mirror · Jan 12, 2023

The plight of the Japanese giant salamander: ‘23m years of DNA might die out’

No one knows how many of these elusive and mysterious creatures are left but time is thought to be running out as artificial barriers fragment their habitat

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2023

Editorial: Don’t give out more chances to hunt bears in California until we know how many are out there

It’s hard to count black bears. They don’t travel in herds. They are generally solitary and reclusive omnivores — although they occasionally display their foraging skills when they wander into a populated area and break into a garbage can or, rarely, a house.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 12, 2023

Pregnant male sea dragon at UCSD's Birch Aquarium might produce bounty of babies

SAN DIEGO -- For the first time, UC San Diego's Birch Aquarium has coaxed a female weedy sea dragon into transferring a large number of eggs to a male sea dragon who could give birth to a bounty of babies.

Tribune News Service · Jan 12, 2023