Seals Bludgeoned, Shot on Irish Island
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Up to 60 protected gray seals have been killed off the west coast of Ireland in what a wildlife group described as slaughter.
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Fears the 36th Ryder Cup match could be reduced to a soggy trudge around an Irish bog are mounting after gales forced organisers to temporarily close the K Club course.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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An injured California gray whale was swimming out to sea Saturday after being shot with a machine gun off the western tip of Washington state, officials said.
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An outbreak of distemper kills at least 41 seal pups, whose carcasses have washed up on a Danish island.
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A major rescue operation is launched after 110 children are swept into the Irish Sea, but all are reported rescued.
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Volunteers worked frantically to save dozens of stranded whales and dolphins in Tasmania yesterday after more than 100 died in mass beachings on two offshore islands.
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Dozens of whales and dolphins mysteriously beached themselves on an Australian island on Sunday, state government officials said. Some 72 pilot whales and 30 bottle nose dolphins died at Sea Elephant Bay on
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An underwater tourist attraction that lured several divers to their deaths may have returned, police warn.
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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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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - The U.S. Ryder Cup  team, wounded after a first day mauling, were losing a fight  for survival Saturday.
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peacekeepers was shot dead, the first casualty of its new, tougher security policy in the South Pacific. Solomon Islands on Thursday.
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Wildlife officials in Key Largo are looking into whether the discovery of a detached goat's head might be linked to the sudden death of a newborn dolphin.  Castaway, a deaf dolphin rescued off Vero Beach last year, gave birth to the healthy calf June 11 at the Maritime Mammal Conservancy.
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By ERIN CONROY BOSTON - 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 - 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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Six people have died and 23 survivors rescued after becoming trapped in an underground shaft on the Spanish island of Tenerife, local officials said.
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HVALER ISLANDS, Norway -- The frostbitten fishermen along this coast of broken clouds know that killing seals requires deft public relations.