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While Brisbane’s waste removal system battles to discard perfectly good mangos, this contrasts starkly with the difficulties and opportunities associated with agricultural produce gluts in poor communities in rural Africa...

Marine biologist Ho Ping-ho spotted two colorful crabs off the coast of Taiwan last June. Along with a team of researchers, Ho, Assistant Professor at National Taiwan Ocean University, found the female crabs off the coast...

Nearly 200 pilot whales stranded on two New Zealand beaches over the weekend.  The first incident invovled 63 pilot whales stranded on North Island.  Rescuers were able to coax 43 of the magnificent creatures back to sea.   Read...

Despite a rough beginning, a beluga whale was born early Monday morning at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. At approximately 11:30 P.M. Sunday evening, 23-year-old Puiji went into labor. Four hours later, the calf began to...

Shrinking sea ice may be to blame for recent polar bear cannibalism incidents in Canada. Eight cases of adult polar bears eating bear cubs and other bears near Churchill, Manitoba, have been reported. Four of the cases were...

While many people enjoy eating a nice lobster or crab dinner, the methods often used to kill the crustaceans are sometimes seen as barbaric and cruel.   It can take live lobsters up to three minutes to die when plunged...

Visitors at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World sure got their money’s worth recently!  Visitors at the New Zealand aquarium witnessed a shark perform an unplanned and unconventional “cesarean section”...

Once cursed with killing dolphins, tuna fishing is now being blamed for a shocking reduction in albatross numbers. Long line fishing is being blamed for a startling drop in the number of albatrosses around the world.  Fish,...

Did you hear the one about the man who didn’t like his blue pumps? So disgusted was he with the color that he cut off his legs and bled to death.

Earlier this week, an ocean survey vessel reported feeling a “shudder underneath the ship” in the waters of northern California.  Soon after, a whale was spotted “bleeding profusely.”   A few...

A class of young school children from Alaska found a dead beluga whale on the beach during a weekly field trip. The Winterberry Elementary School second graders came across the whale along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail.  ...

A donation of three tons of grapes has been converted, via wine, into funds for the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) project to save endangered dolphins endemic to New Zealand...

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In the Australian outbacks, 18 scientists have just discovered over 850 new species living underground. Read more of this story »

Wildlife experts fear that the spread of an AIDS-like virus could force already threatened koalas into extinction. Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) populations are in serious decline - victims of habitat loss, domestic dog...