Stranded Whale Saved From Certain Death
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By Roy Goh  KOTA KINABALU: A whale, about 20m in length, became a hubbub of attention when it was found stranded in shallow waters off Pulau Gaya near here yesterday morning.
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A young whale which had become stranded on a north Wales beach is put down by a rescue team.
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The crew of a Japanese whaling ship stranded in Antarctic waters was trying to repair its engines Sunday and prevent an abrupt end to Japan's whaling season, an official said.
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A passing ship has rescued an Indonesian who spent days adrift in the Indian Ocean after the tsunami washed him out to sea, Malaysian officials said on Monday.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Aquarium in Baltimore's Marine Animal Rescue Program today released a rehabilitated endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle. The turtle was stranded in June on Hooper's Island in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Rescuers were encouraged by the progress two lost whales have made toward their ocean home but were concerned about encounters the two might have with large ships as they near San Francisco Bay.
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River were spotted Tuesday morning just beyond a bridge where they had stopped a day earlier, a delay that worried scientists hoping to get them back to the ocean
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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers refloated another 15 and monitored their progress toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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By ERIN CONROY BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago.
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The eastern Pacific gray whale may not have recovered to its pre-hunting population as has ben believed.
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For the second time in five months, a whale shark at the aquarium was euthanized, raising questions about the viability of the species in captivity.
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Volunteers are battling to save whales and dolphins who have beached themselves off the coast of Australia. More than a hundred of them have already died after getting stuck on beaches off Tasmania over the weekend.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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Rescuers saved a rare dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami which devastated shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed to find her calf in a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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A Japanese whaling ship, stranded for 10 days off the Antarctic coast after a fire, no longer posed a danger to wildlife but was staying in the frigid Southern Ocean, New Zealand rescue officials said on Monday.
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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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A decomposing whale washed up yesterday near Scotch Beach. Reports indicate the whale is baleen, using plates along its upper jaw to strain food from water, said Scott Comings, director of Block Island programs for The Nature Conservancy.