British Whaling Shipwrecks Believed Found
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In what is being called a "mind-blowing" discovery, divers have found anchors, cauldrons and cannonballs near a remote Hawaiian atoll where two British whaling ships were lost nearly two centuries ago.
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A whale which hit the headlines around the world when it was stranded in the River Thames in London earlier this year was suffering from a painful form of arthritis, scientists have said.
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The British navy helped a US deep-sea explorer firm remove treasures it discovered at the site of a shipwreck that Madrid suspects was found in Spanish waters, Spanish media reported on Friday.
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Divers off the Pembrokeshire coast may be about to re-write history after discovering an unidentified shipwreck.
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Researchers say a museum in central Japan has right whale fossils that are at least 5 million years old, making them the oldest fossilized remains of the animal in the world, officials said Wednesday.
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Small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons 10 million years ago may have evolved into whale
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The carcasses of three bottlenose dolphins Â including a calf Â were found dumped near a holding pen in the Solomon Islands where controversial exports of the mammals were planned. The exporting company on Wednesday denied any knowledge.
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Divers may have found the wreck of a ship from the last foreign invasion of mainland Britain, over 200 years ago.
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Salvagers discovered thousands of pearls Friday in a small, lead box they said they found while searching for the wreckage of the 17th-century Spanish galleon Santa Margarita.
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Wildlife experts express surprise after a pod of killer whales is seen in the Firth of Forth.
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The rugged coastline of Tasmania was littered with the carcasses of more than 100 whales and dolphins yesterday after two separate beachings that have baffled scientists.
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A global inquiry is under way after a boat carrying the bodies of 11 men was found adrift off the Barbados coast.
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Scientists and wildlife officials continued to search Tuesday for what may have caused a series of mass strandings which left 168 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days.
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Explorers have discovered a century-old shipwrecked ore carrier that sank mysteriously during a Lake Superior storm less than two months after it was launched.
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HOBART, Australia : Rescuers succeeded in saving most of the whales still stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of increased beachings.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds today, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.