Dead sea turtles wash up on beaches
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Nearly two dozen dead sea turtles have washed up on Maryland and Delaware beaches in the past 10 days. At least nine of the animals, which are among six endangered
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Endangered turtles die shortly after hatching from their eggs. Fish float dead off the coast. Flaming oil sends waves of black smoke toward the city.
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By Kathleen Casey, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  May 28--There's only one beach left for the leatherback sea turtle, one nesting area that hasn't been built up with condos and hotels.
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Hurricane Jeanne destroyed many of the sea turtle nests on Florida's central Atlantic beaches that had survived Charley and Frances, officials said.
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Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 17--Volunteers picking up litter in Saturday's Beach Sweep/River Sweep again found cigarette butts to be the largest component of beach trash.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - One of two hooded seals that washed up in Martin and Palm Beach counties over the weekend was flown Wednesday to a marine mammal center in New Jersey that is better equipped to care for the cold water animals.
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By Sallie James, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 8--CORAL SPRINGS -- With every scoop made by a rumbling trackhoe, injured turtles and waterbirds came closer this week to having a new home at the Sawgrass Nature Center.
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By Kevin Moran, Houston Chronicle  Mar. 3--Scientists who chart the Kemp's ridley sea turtles along the Texas coast are hoping for another successful season following last year's record-breaking number of nestings.
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A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites.
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About 1,500 dead birds that have washed up on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake may have been killed by avian cholera, an expert said. Dead grebes, ducks and gulls were being sent to the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., for examination.
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Carcasses of dead dolphins and pilot whales strewn on a beach on Australia&#39;s King Island, off Tasmania state on Sunday. A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto a beach on the island where
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The bronze bowl seems unremarkable until you study it from above. Then, the shallow basin suddenly seems to teem with life: etchings of tiny tadpoles, turtles and fish wriggle across the bottom and up the sides, as if trapped in a real-life pond.
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Sri Lankan conservationist Kithsiri Kannangara wipes a tear as he stands over a patch of sand and broken wire mesh, the only surviving incubation pit of his hatchery for endangered sea turtles.
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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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Thousands of croakers have washed ashore at beaches in recent days, the latest mass deaths of the popular sport and food fish.
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ARANDA, Albania - Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.