Death of swollen-tongued whale probed
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The unusually swollen tongue of a dead humpback whale may indicate that it perished after colliding with a ship in the waters of southeast Alaska, scientists said Monday.
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Weapon fragments found inside a 50-ton whale killed of the Alaskan coast puts the animal's age at up to 130 years.
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Sydney - More than a dozen large sperm whales may have died in a beaching incident on Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania, local wildlife rangers said on Monday.
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have left 169 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days. By Tuesday, 96 long-finned pilot whales and bottle-nosed dolphins had died after the first beaching on Sunday at King Island, midway.
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Early results from a necropsy performed on a whale shark that died at the Georgia Aquarium this week produced no conclusive findings on the cause of death, aquarium officials said late Thursday.
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SYDNEY - Nineteen whales died and 24 were rescued after 43 whales beached themselves on Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s southeast coast Sunday, the second beaching in Australian waters in 24 hours, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
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A killer whale at the SeaWorld in San Antonio has died unexpectedly.
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Experts could not determine what killed a 40-foot-long whale that washed ashore at Seal Rock last weekend.
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An injured whale died Sunday after beaching itself in the same spot off Malaysia's coast for the second time in as many days, news reports said Monday.
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At least 80 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves on a remote island between the Australian mainland and the country&#39;s island state of Tasmania.
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Body of dog that mauled boy to death will be examined to see if it had any 'abnormality',  inquest hears
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HOBART, Australia  - About 100 whales and dolphins died after beaching on a southern Australian island Sunday and about 50 more were still at risk, a government official said.
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One of two Coast Guard divers who mysteriously died during a training dive in the Arctic last summer sank uncontrollably as far as 190 feet below the icy surface and suffocated, according to an autopsy summary obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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An often-fatal bacterial disease that has sickened hundreds of sea lions on the Central Coast is seen as a threat to humans and other mammals as well.
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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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An investigation is under way into the death of a five-month-old girl savaged by two dogs.
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HOUSTON -- A Houston dentist has died after flesh-eating bacteria invaded a cut on his leg while he was fishing near Port O&#39;Connor about a month ago.