Thousands of Seals at Home in New England
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It's a sight New Englanders aren't entirely used to seeing: thousands of seals swimming through the Long Island Sound or hauling out to Maine, where they like to have their pups.
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Animal conservation groups call for new legislation to protect seals in Scottish waters.
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A boat struck a whale off New Hampshire's coast, leaving a deep gash as sightseers aboard three whale-watching boats snapped photos.
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ENSENADA, Mexico  - For years, Cristina Imana has  gazed out from her clifftop porch near the Mexican resort town  of Ensenada and watched migrating gray whales roll around with  their babies in the glistening surf below.
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Travel: Bobbing about in a sea kayak among the seals of New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park can be a very calming experience, says Nick Taylor.
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HVALER ISLANDS, Norway -- The frostbitten fishermen along this coast of broken clouds know that killing seals requires deft public relations.
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Volunteers worked frantically to save dozens of stranded whales and dolphins in Tasmania yesterday after more than 100 died in mass beachings on two offshore islands.
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AN AMAZING wildlife spectacle is taking place in the heart of a northern city, wildlife experts announced yesterday.   A family of peregrines has made its home high above Manchester's streets, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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When the busload of campaign volunteers left Arlington, Mass., on Saturday to knock on doors in neighboring New Hampshire, Rep. Ed Markey was on it.
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President Bush is creating a vast new marine sanctuary Thursday, extending stronger federal protections to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and its endangered monk seals, nesting green sea turtles and other rare species.
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Animal advocates who want to protect seals living at a beach sued the city of San Diego on Tuesday, the latest episode in a standoff that's included at least two suspicious seal deaths.
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A seal pup that was found by the side of a country road miles from the coast or the nearest river has been successfully released back into the Irish Sea, wildlife officials said Monday.
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During the past two days, many have come with hopes of a lower tide and a chance to see a stranded seal that may have traveled from as far as the Arctic Circle.
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Scientists investigating high mortality rates of seals say no fast answer has emerged. Reports of stranded seals have slowed to normal rates in recent weeks, but researchers continue to search for clues about what happened to the harbor seals last summer in Maine.
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.
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A lone whale with a voice unlike any other has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years. Marine biologist Mary Ann Daher of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, US, and her colleagues
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A family was startled when they were confronted by masked intruders. But it wasn't burglars Tina Tavernie found in her home. It was two 15-pound raccoons.  Tavernie, 33, was home with her three children Saturday evening when they heard noises upstairs.