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Actress calls for release of Miami killer whale, and Seaquarium replies

MIAMI — Free Lolita. That’s the message Mexican actress Kate del Castillo is passing along in a new video she recorded for the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Del Castillo held a news conference in Miami on Tuesday imploring tourists to boycott the Miami Seaquarium, where the 50-year-old killer […]

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Mysterious stranding kills 81 false killer whales off Southwest Florida

MIAMI — More than 80 false killer whales have been found dead after stranding themselves along the remote coast of Southwest Florida in Everglades National Park, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Monday. So far, the death toll is 81, with just one of the rare whales found alive. Crews continue to search for

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The end of an era for “The greatest show on earth”

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs. “After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

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USA – SeaWord San Diego ends world-famous killer whale show

SeaWorld San Diego ended its long-running killer whale show on Sunday, following years of protests and falling attendance. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. announced last year that it was ending its theatrical orca shows and breeding programme. The final performances, which featured whales cavorting with trainers and leaping high out of the Shamu Stadium pool, came only

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Tilikum, the infamous SeaWorld killer whale, has died

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tilikum, the SeaWorld killer whale that inspired the anti-captivity documentary “Blackfish” after killing an Orlando trainer, has died. SeaWorld said Tilikum had been battling a serious and persistent lung infection. Acquired by SeaWorld in 1992, Tilikum helped SeaWorld grow its captive orca collection by fathering more than a dozen offspring. But Tilikum

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La Paz’s water is running out as Bolivia suffers its worst drought in 25 years

The rugged Dakar Rally auto race is about to blaze through Bolivia. But to many Bolivians, the timing could not be worse. Thousands of La Paz residents have been protesting these days. Now they’re also shouting online with the hashtag #AguaSíDakarNo — “yes to water, no to Dakar.” In other words, they wish authorities would

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What do we know about dinosaur eggs?

These fossils can reveal a lot about how dinosaurs lived Darla Zelinitsky A fossilized embryo of the duck-billed Hypacrosaurus. Some dinosaur eggs took a surprisingly long time to hatch, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By examining the teeth of unhatched dinosaur embryos, paleontologists determined

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SpaceX says failure of helium storage tank caused September rocket explosion

Four months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX said Monday that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid helium. In the final update to its investigation, the space company said one of three such tanks in the rocket’s larger, second-stage liquid oxygen tank

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Quake swarm near the California-Mexico border gets scientists’ attention

More than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from scientists. The strongest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 3.9, directly underneath Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The earthquakes struck in the southern end of the Brawley Seismic Zone, a

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