This past August, biologists from the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Stranding Response Team were notified of an unusual sighting in the Elizabeth River, a busy, industrial tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. A 45-foot long female sei whale was spotted floating up river, far away from its normal habitat in the Atlantic. Aquarium research coordinator Susan Barco told National Geographic that the sighting was odd, and that the whale […]

SeaWorld’s demise may finally be upon us as the reappearance of a renowned orca has debunked a series of claims the theme park made about the health of killer whales. According to The Dodo, a 103-year-old orca known as “Granny” was recently spotted off the western coast of Canada with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. While it is a rarity for any animal to live this long, Granny’s very existence is […]

Doris Sheppard told a lie the other day, a small white lie, rooted in the goodness of her heart and uttered with the truest of intentions to a group of young children that were milling about on the boardwalk overlooking the beach in Trout River, N.L. Kids, being kids, get into all sorts of stuff in Trout River. It is a town of 600 people where people don’t lock their […]

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan could try to rescue its Antarctic whaling program by sharply reducing catch quotas after the highest U.N. court ordered a halt, rejecting Tokyo’s argument that the catch was for scientific purposes and not mainly for human consumption. The judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was a blow to Japan’s decades-old “scientific whaling” program, although Tokyo, which said it would abide by […]