Graphic whaling photos released
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Australia releases "distressing" pictures of whales harpooned by a Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean.
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Australia's government on Thursday released graphic pictures of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging their bleeding carcasses onto a ship near Antarctica, calling it evidence of the "indiscriminate" slaughter of the animals.
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Photographs from the book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
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Mass strandings of marine mammals have occurred in Australia and New Zealand this week, proving an earlier predication made by Australian scientists, New Zealand Press Association said Wednesday.
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A humpback whale and her calf that have captivated the San Francisco Bay area for two weeks made progress in finding their way back to open waters.  Late Tuesday night, the U.S.
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Mysterious deep-sea giants that use their bioluminescent arms to dazzle and catch prey have been filmed for the first time ever in the wild. With videos
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A study to be released this week will show that an endangered species of whales is under threat from a Royal Dutch/Shell-led energy project off Russia's Pacific coast, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--For the past week, residents of the Bay Area have been transfixed by the plight of the two injured humpback whales that got lost in the fresh waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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SYDNEY - Humane Society International opened legal proceedings in Australian Federal Courts on Tuesday against a Japanese whaling fleet that it charges has killed more than 400 minke whales within Australia&#39;s whale sanctuary over the past four years.
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Slide show: Photographs taken in the New York region by Times photographers in the past week.
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Photo-sharing Web sites are getting better at handling pictures based on where they were taken. My top pick is Flickr, with SmugMug and Google's Picasa tied for second.
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A "playful" killer whale who likes to frolic alongside fishermen has damaged three boats in separate incidents in recent weeks. Luna, described by fishermen as a friendly 5-year-old whale, has made frequent contact with people and boats in waters off Vancouver Island.
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Hiroshi Kobayashi has been hunting whales for three years now. He knows just where to look, and boasts that, in season, he has a close-to-perfect record of finding them. But he's never killed one &#151; he captains a whale-watching boat for tourists. And he thinks whaling is, or should be, a thing of the past.
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Reader Arvind Chudasama sends us photographs.
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Reader Shanti Palepu sends us a photograph.
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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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Final tally: 508 whales, 1 crew member Japan's Antarctic whaling fleet has called it a day for this season following the recent fire aboard its main vessel the Nisshin Maru, Reuters reports.â¦