One day after an orca at Sea World in Orlando dragged a female trainer into his tank by her ponytail, causing her death, a crack appeared in a huge aquarium in a Dubai mall filled with hundreds of sharks.
Dubai’s Gulf News reported that witnesses saw water leaking from the mall’s massive fish tank, which holds [...]

SeaWorld said Thursday that despite calls to free or destroy the killer whale that drowned its trainer, it will keep the animal but suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.
Also, privileged visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be [...]

A killer whale who killed a trainer in front of a live audience at SeaWorld Orlando on Wednesday has been involved in two other deaths, including one in Victoria, B.C., almost 20 years ago.
Officials say the whale, called Tillikum, grabbed Dawn Brancheau, 40, in its jaw and thrashed her around underwater as the horrified Florida [...]

OTTAWA — Canada will sign a new agreement on Friday with the governments of Greenland and Nunavut to protect polar bear populations in their overlapping regions.
Environment Minister Jim Prentice is travelling to Greenland for the day to participate in a signing ceremony.
Conservation groups have said they expect the agreement to be similar to other [...]

A Florida Keys manatee who was apparently drawn to the bright lights of Broadway has spent the last several months swimming to New York, but it looks like his Big Apple stay is about to be cut short.
Biologists have been tracking Ilya the manatee’s travels for months as he took off from Key West months [...]

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. – A little girl who once loved to feed the animals is reassessing her cute-and-cuddly image of seals after one of them snatched her off a dock and dragged under the water.
The five-year-old is traumatized and nursing puncture wounds after her encounter with a very “rude” seal, but is otherwise OK [...]

The Calgary Zoo plans to start building a $24.5-million penguin exhibit — featuring about 80 birds from four species — by next spring after the project spent months in limbo.
It’s the only piece of the ambitious Arctic Shores proposal that will be built in the near future.
Antarctic Landing will give visitors a chance to [...]

OTTAWA — The Canadian government vowed to fight for the country’s seal hunt industry Monday and said it will launch an appeal of the European Union’s decision to ban the trade of all seal products, International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said at a news conference.
“We are very disappointed with this ruling,” he told reporters. “We [...]

MIAMI – It’s not clear how or when it was killed, but police were called to a downtown Miami street when a five-to-six-foot shark was found lying in the middle of it.
News footage Tuesday night showed the dead animal in the street with police officers and cruisers nearby. Two TV stations reported that a [...]

NEW YORK (CNN) — A 26-foot-long dying shark washed ashore Tuesday on a Long Island beach, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said.
The male basking shark, which weighed an estimated 5,000 pounds and was measured at 26 feet, 6 inches, died shortly after authorities arrived on the scene, according [...]