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- Pollution stunts Canada's beluga whales
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  His team analysed the carcasses of beluga over 15 years and estimates that the traces in the fat of the whale of chemicals banned in the 1980s have fallen little -- in fact, they remain "still very significant."
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- Young Whale Found in New York Harbor
  Posted by Jeff from SFGate.com
  The animal, described as a juvenile minke whale about 15 feet long, was cruising around Gowanus Bay, the outlet from the mile-long Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It appeared to be in good health and not distressed, said Kim Durham, rescue program director for the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.
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- Scientists Enlist Nature's Divers to Sample Icy Sea
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  "They basically collect data all the way down on their dive profile, and on the way back," Laidre said last month before she left for Greenland. "Nobody has done any research on narwhals out there, and this will be really interesting."
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- Whales surface in Tuscany
  Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK
  Make sure that Tuscan wine is whale-free: The 10-metre fossils, the biggest found in Italy, date from four to five million years ago when the region sat on the sea bed. "This is a spectacular find," said Elisabetta Cioppi, a palaeontologist at the University of Florence, of the most recent discovery of a whale fossil just 50cm below ground level in a wheat field near Orciano Pisano.
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- Pentagon: Navy can keep using sonar
  Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!
  Bizarre ruling ... The Defense Department gave the Navy permission Tuesday to keep training with sonar for another two years, a move denounced by activists who say the sound waves can harm dolphins and other marine mammals.
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- Alaska cruise ship arrives with dead whale on bow
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  It was tentatively identified as a humpback, an endangered species, and towed by a tugboat Saturday afternoon to a nearby beach. A necropsy has been sched
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- Ancient whale 'truly weird'
  Posted by Billbar from Nature
  A 25-million-year-old whale fossil from southeastern Australia has revealed a bizarre early type of 'baleen' whale. The creature was an ancient cousin of our modern blue whales and humpbacks, but it was hardly a gentle giant of the sea. Instead it was small and predatory, with enormous eyes and teeth. "It's almost like a whale from outer space: truly weird," says study author Erich Fitzgerald of Monash University in Clayton, Australia. "In overall appearance and lifestyle, it looks more like a modern leopard seal."
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this is cool
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2:18 pm 10/31/07

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