Search for Rare Dolphin Ends in Failure
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By CHARLES HUTZLER  BEIJING - An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.
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SYDNEY A series of mass strandings left 168 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches, leaving scientists and wildlife officials searching for the cause Tuesday.
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What do you do when a great white wants to have you, your daughter and her friends for lunch? (Besides praying, let&#39;s say). Well, if you&#39;re lucky, you leave your fate in the hands of dolphins.
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Heavy rain and thick clouds hampered   the search on Sunday for a helicopter chartered by conservation   group WWF which disappeared in bad weather with 24 people on   board, officials said.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. Ninety-seven pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died off King Island over the weekend, and several others have died off Maria Island.
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NASA's best effort to find a missing Mars space probe have failed, scientists said Tuesday as they began to lose hope for the 10-year-old planet-mapping workhorse.
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MIAMI - An 80-year-old diver spent 18 hours holding on to a buoy in the cold, rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean before a relative found him Sunday, ending an exhaustive search off the Florida Keys.
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There is insufficient evidence to list a fish known as the longnose sucker as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday.
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One of Earth&#39;s rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po&#39;ouli. The aging male po&#39;ouli died in captivity
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Up to 80 pilot whales and bottle nose dolphins died after a mass stranding on King Island off Tasmania, Australia. The number of dead mammals is lower than that in earlier
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Sperm whales routinely dive more than two miles below the ocean surface to hunt for giant squid, but a study shows the huge mammals suffer a chronic loss of bone tissue from the bends, a painful condition well-known to human divers.
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A search for tigers in a wildlife reserve in India's western state of Rajasthan fails to find evidence any are alive.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been dropped, a top Japan official says.
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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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The first successful submarine attack in history is only a partial success: The sub is lost, too. Compiled by Tony Long.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers have saved a  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami that devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed on Wednesday to find  her calf in a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.