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Is it time to set orcas free?

The death of a Sea World orca trainer revives the question of whether or not it is ethical to keep killer whales in captivity.

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Scientists: Treat Dolphins Like People

Dolphins are so smart, it’s morally criminal to keep them locked up in tanks. In fact, we should be treating them as “non-human persons”, say scientists who have been studying the animals’ intelligence and behavior.
The researchers say that these sea mammals are brighter than chimpanzees, with many key brain features that are associated with high [...]

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Amazingly Strange Deep Sea Creatures

Once considered an environment that simply couldn’t support life, the deepest darkest reaches of the seas have since been proven a treasure trove of mind-boggling creatures – beautiful and strange, sometimes even nightmarish. The results of a ten-year deep sea census of marine life have been revealed by scientists at last and the images that [...]

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Awesome Photo: Predatory Coral Eats Jellyfish

Coral seems so peaceful and passive, rippling in the currents of the sea in all its colorful beauty. It’s easy to forget that it’s actually an animal and not a plant. But, perhaps this photo will remind you – captured on a dive in Israel in March, it’s the first documentation of coral feeding on [...]

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Shocking Photos: Bird Bodies Full of Plastic

Lighters, bottle caps, plastic bags and milk jugs. Fishing net, fishing line, zip ties, remnants of food containers. All of this and more floats in a massive vortex of trash in the Pacific Ocean – and in the stomachs of the birds who search for food amid the debris.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice [...]

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Ancient, Bizarre New Species of Ghostshark Discovered

The Eastern Pacific Black Ghostshark is a bizarre, highly unusual, newly discovered species… yet it was found off the coast of California. This ‘chimaera’ is part of an ancient and strange group of fish that branched off from sharks, in terms of evolution, nearly 400 million years ago. They’re normally found in deep waters.
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