Atlantic Right Whale Cut Free Off S.C.
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Scientists apparently freed a young whale from more than 150 feet of lobster fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours.
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The Bronx Zoo is closing a large animal preserve on a 14,000-acre undeveloped island off the coast of Georgia.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.
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Rescue teams save a whale stuck on the Lincolnshire coast after its companion died.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday, while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean on Sunday after lingering for a week near a bridge about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
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More than 50 dead whales will be buried today after a mass stranding at a Coromandel beach. Seventy-three pilot whales came ashore at Opoutere beach on Sunday night.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 17--Saving the whales is no job for amateurs.
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By Chrissy Vick, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 8--NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH -- Endangered homes on the north end of North Topsail Beach received some relief this week.   The U.S.
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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 &#151; more than a century ago.
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By Julia Chan  KOTA KINABALU: It seemed like a happy ending. The crowds cheered as the Bryde's whale swam away from Pulau Gaya on Friday. And everyone assumed it had survived its ordeal because marine patrol officers didn't spot it again.  But it was not to be.
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A whale caught off the Alaskan coast had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt â more than a century ago.
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FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. - Wildlife officials are trying to coax a seal back into the ocean after it found its way into an area of woods and marshes near the Delaware River.  The 300-pound animal was found in suburban Philadelphia, about 50 miles upriver from where the Delaware becomes salty.
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Greenpeace says it has chased off a factory ship from a Japanese whaling mission near Antarctica's coast.
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The busy shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor will be narrowed and shifted northward Sunday in a bid to lower the risk of rare right whales being killed by ships.
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A badly injured whale that became trapped in a sea loch has died, rescuers confirm.