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  Lonesome George the Tortise and More: 10 Really, Really Old Animals (Slideshow)

  For every animal that dies before its time, there are others that outdo their species with record-setting lifespans: 211-year-old whales, 25-year-old dogs, 175-year-old tortoises. And while

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  Lonesome George the Tortise and More: 10 Really, Really Old Animals

  It's easy to forget that animals were here long before we started studying them--until you look at a 175-year-old tortoise, a 211-year-old-whale, or a 2,000-year-old coral. When it comes to determining the exact age of some of these creatures, the scien

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  Save the Whales! We Need Their Poo.

  If you've been looking for a new reason to argue for saving the whales, researchers at the Australian Antarctic Division have come up with it. We've been hearing reports about the worrying effects of ocean

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  Whaling in the Southern Ocean to be Legalized for 10 Years Under IWC 'Peace Plan' Proposal

  Last week we got word that a compromise plan on international whaling, which would attempt to bring Japan, Iceland, and Norway back into the fold, was forthcoming from the International Whaling Commission. Now we

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  Washed Up Whale Found with Gallons of Our Garbage In Its Gut

  A young 37-foot whale stranded on the shore in West Seattle, and it had a summary of what we're

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  International Whaling 'Peace Plan' Moving Forward

  A whaling 'peace plan' proposal attempting to bridge the gap between Japan, Norway, and Iceland, which all object to the international ban on whaling, and the rest of the

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  Sea Shepherd Harassment Cuts Japanese Whale Catch in Half

  Say what you like about their tactics, but the efforts of Sea Shepherd to

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  What's Wrong With Southern Right Whales? 100s Washed Up Dead in Patagonia Over Past Five Years

  The payoff straight away: No one quite knows why 308 southern right whales, 88% of them less than three months old and many of them with unusually thin layers of blubber, have washed up dead on the shores of Patagonia since 2005. What we do know is that

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  Norway Raises Hunting Quota to 1,286 Whales

  The government of Norway announced on April 1st, perhaps hoping the unseemly news would be lost amid the fictitious headlines of the day, that the country's whale hunting quota would be raised to the highest level in 25

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  Endangered Whale Birth Photographed for First Time!

  It's a rare thing to see a whale birth in the wild, and even rarer to see that of an endangered species. But just last week, researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington

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  Greenpeace Blocks Ship Loaded with Fin Whale Meat Heading for Japan

  This morning, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a cargo ship in the Dutch port of Rotterdam in an effort to block the export of whale meat from Iceland to Japan. The

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  From the Forums: Preserve the Ban on Whaling!

  greenferret is worried about the end of the whale-hunting moratorium: Since 1986, the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whaling has helped threatened whale populations to recover. Now, the

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  Hayden Panettiere Takes on Dolphin Hunters, Edward Norton Wants You in the Dark, and More

  Actress and animal lover Hayden Panettiere and her boyfriend, Wladimir Klitschko, returned this week to Taiji, the town where Oscar-winning documentary The Cove was filmed, for what the actress called "a peaceful and relaxed

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  Dive into Disneynature's "Oceans" on Earth Day for Coral Reefs

  Last year the folks at Disneynature brought us the spectacular film, "Earth," on Earth Day. This year the studio releases "Oceans," a chronicle of the mysterious depths in five of the world's oceans, showing in theaters on April 22, Earth Day 2010.

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  Historic Images Document Drastic Depletion of Marine Life (Slideshow)

  In addition to conducting the largest ever survey of life in the global oceans, Census of Marine Life scientists pored over ships logs, tax records, literature, monastery archives, and historical photos to piece

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  Historic Images Document Drastic Depletion of Marine Life

  A Good Catch, 1958 In 1958, a man took his family fishing off of Key West and captured the moment of glory in a souvenir photo. Half a century later, this photo is one of many records reviewed by scientists trying to piece together a picture of how life i

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  The Cove Documentary Set To Become A TV Series on Animal Planet

  Photo via The Cove The Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market. It has changed lives, riled people up, won its Oscar, and now it

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  PSA Shows Life in a Sea of Plastic

  Recent research is shedding light on the disturbing state of our planet's oceans and the incredible amount of waste that has collected at sea, but sometimes a shocking video is more helpful in advancing the urgency of the problem. In this animated PSA