Photo in the News: World's Tallest Man Saves Dolphin
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Who says superheroes don't exist? In China a towering shepherd used his extra-long arms to pull plastic from two dolphins' bellies&#8212;succeeding where veterinarians had been powerless.
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PLYMOUTH, Wis. - Firefighters used a harness and a tow truck to pull a donkey from an old well Friday after it fell 15 feet. The rescue happened about an hour and a half after the fire department responded to a 10 a.m. call to the home of Francis and Karee Abbott, Fire Chief Ron Nicolaus said.
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British sailor Alex Thomson has been rescued by a rival competitor after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean while taking part in the Five Oceans round-the-world race.
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By Heath, David  The whooping crane (Grus americana), North America's tallest bird and a species that once seemed doomed to extinction, is showing signs of progress, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials.
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FOXBOROUGH - Jabar Gaffney likely could have been forgiven had the flying body of Dolphins safety Lance Schulters thrown him off. Schulters, after all, took a not-so-graceful (and not-so-savvy) leap toward Gaffney as the wide receiver flew down the left sideline.
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New Zealand fishermen may have caught the largest Colossal squid ever found -- weighing around 450kg (992 pounds) and with rings the size of tyres.
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By CHARLES HUTZLER  BEIJING - A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.
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A lifeguard and group of children were saved from a potential shark attack by a pod of circling dolphins which formed a protective shield, the swimmers claim.
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Dorset sanctuary saves 88 monkeys from confinement in world's biggest rescue mission of its kind
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DOLPHINS saved a former St Ives man and his daughter from a shark attack as they swam off the northern New Zealand coast. The bottlenose dolphins surrounded Rob Howes, 47, his daughter Niccy, 15, Helen Slade
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Let's see David Blaine do this. Watch a slippery cephalopod show why its kind are among the great escape artists of the deep.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- A life capsized has stranded Jose de Jesus Torres atop these craggy cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Waves crash and dolphins dance as this modern-day cliff dweller waits for another opportunity to cross the US border.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.
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Two men were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of harassing a dolphin known locally as &quot;Dave&quot; off the Kent coast, police said.
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A decades-long search by the world&#39;s tallest man for a bride finally came to an end on Thursday when the Chinese herdsman married a woman who barely stands up to his elbow.
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[World News]: New York, Dec 29 : New York Supermodel Petra Nemcova survived the killer Asian tsunami by clinging to the top of a palm tree for eight hours, while bearing the pain of a broken pelvis and the tragedy of her boyfriend Simon Atlee being
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A redwood in a remote Northern California coastal forest has been tentatively measured as the world's tallest living thing.