CLEVELAND - Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam — a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, said experts from the Zoo’s Asian turtle […]

VANCOUVER - Romance was in the air at the Vancouver Aquarium on Thursday and it had nothing to do with Valentine’s Day.
Aquarium staff confirmed Qila, a 12-year-old beluga whale, Qila, is pregnant and due this summer, possibly in July or August. Staff actually confirmed the pregnancy in August, but veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena said […]

Feb. 12, 2008 — One of the emblems of the Antarctic, the king penguin, could be driven to extinction by climate change, a French study has warned.
In a long-term investigation on the penguins’ main breeding grounds, investigators found that a tiny warming of the Southern Ocean by the El Nino effect caused a massive fall […]

A man convicted of recklessly harassing a school of dolphins while on a jet ski has been fined £500.
Nicol Wood, 22, had earlier gone on trial over an incident with a school of bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth.
However, he then offered a plea at Banff Sheriff Court and the allegation that he intentionally […]

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. Navy to lessen the harm its high-power sonar does to whales and other marine life during exercises off the Southern California coast.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday sent the matter to a trial judge in Los Angeles to figure out exactly how […]

BRIGANTINE, N.J. - A blind harbor seal rescued off Cape May Point in February is headed for LA.
The Los Angeles Zoo has agreed to take the animal and it likely will be flown west on October 19. The male seal weighed just 90 pounds when it was pulled from the water; it’s now a healthy […]

Ancient corals may have been more adaptable to changing ocean chemistry than previously thought, a new study shows.
The findings may offer hope that modern corals can adapt as global warming causes seas to become more acidic.
These fossil corals in diverse reef communities adjusted to an acidic environment by altering the way they built […]

NEAH BAY, Wash. - 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.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Parker said five people believed to be members of the Makah Tribe shot and harpooned the whale Saturday morning. The […]

CLEARWATER, Florida (AP) — Prosthetic specialist Kevin Carroll travels the country tackling the toughest human amputation cases, so it was only natural that he was also drawn to Winter — the only known dolphin to survive the loss of her powerful tail flukes.
“My heart went out to her, and I was thinking I could probably […]

MANILA (AFP) - Only about 47 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins may be left in Philippine waters, the World Wildlife Fund said Thursday.
WWF-Philippines said the Irrawaddy dolphin was the most endangered dolphin in the Southeast Asian archipelago nation, with just 77 found in the Malampaya Sound, off the western island of Palawan, in a study in […]