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A guy who started a website that tracks orca incidents with boats near Spain and Portugal said that encounters are at least every day now
A man who has been tracking orca sightings and attacks on boats since last year says there have bee…
Rebecca Cohen
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Orcas were spotted swimming unusually close to Massachusetts
New England Aquarium scientists photographed four killer whales near Nantucket as they were conduct…
Rebecca Harrington
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Orcas may just be the beginning. Whales and humans are likely to have more strange encounters in the future.
Orcas are targeting boats near Spain and gray whales in Baja let humans pet them. Meanwhile many wh…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The awe-inspiring titanosaur, one of the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived, goes on display
The dinosaur weighed 57 tons, was 121 feet long, and lived about 100 million years ago. It belonged…
Isobel van Hagen
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Swifties labeled 'disrespectful' for swarming Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley's wedding rehearsal to catch a glimpse of Taylor Swift
Footage online shows police were called after hundreds of Swifties gathered outside Jack Antonoff a…
Maria Noyen
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Dramatic footage shows orcas breaking an ice platform to trap and kill a seal, a rare technique used by only 100 whales
The whales made an artificial wave to break up the ice platform by swimming side by side, as shown …
Marianne Guenot
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A pair of orcas are hunting great white sharks to eat their livers, causing the species to flee the coast of South Africa
Great white sharks off the coast of South Africa are being preyed upon by two killer whales, causin…
Joshua Zitser
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5 things you think you know about killer whales that are actually wrong
The biggest misconception about killer whales is in the name: "whales." These creatures are actuall…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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Whales are turning up dead on beaches — and our online shopping addiction is partly to blame
Nearly two dozen whales have washed up along the Atlantic coast in recent months. Experts say clima…
Avery Hartmans
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Listen to 'the bloop,' a strange noise recorded in the southern Pacific Ocean that stumped scientists for years
In 1997, scientists recorded a haunting noise from deep beneath the ocean's surface. The mystery to…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A Chinese city is getting roasted online for demanding that fishermen bring fish and crabs in for COVID-19 swabs
Videos show the fishermen presenting their catch for a "human and goods" swab test at Jimei distric…
Matthew Loh
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A new species of armless dinosaur discovered in Argentina belongs to a family of fearsome predators
Abelisaurid dinosaurs didn't need arms to become some of the fiercest hunters of the late Cretaceou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Big whales eat 3 times as much as previously thought, which means killing them for food and blubber is even more harmful to the environment
A decadelong study tagged over 300 baleen whales to understand how much they eat. It found that the…
Marianne Guenot
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Police said a child died from a 'blackout challenge' found on TikTok, but the dangerous 'game' has circulated for years
Bethany, Oklahoma, police said that following a preliminary investigation, a juvenile died after ap…
Palmer Haasch
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A factory in Indiana is turning plastic waste into eco-friendly fuel — and it's trying to revolutionize how we handle pollution
Brightmark, a waste solutions company, is aiming to turn 100,000 tons of plastic into products like…
Hannah Jiang,Erika Celeste,Br…
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How whales became the largest animals ever
It wasn't until around 3 million years ago that an ice age tipped the scales in the whales' favor. …
Uma Sharma,Shira Polan
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8 aquatic animals that might be extinct in 100 years
Climate change is already impacting a variety of ecosystems and environments around the world, putt…
Christina Lynn Snyder
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12 things I wish I'd known before going on safari in Sri Lanka, which I'm convinced is going to be Asia's next tourist hotspot
While it doesn't boast Africa's famous Big Five, Sri Lanka's Big Four (leopards, elephants, sloth b…
Tom Murray
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Here's an incredible first look at the largest heart that humans have ever preserved
Just last month, scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) removed the heart from its icy chambe…
Jessica Orwig
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Here's just how far Olympic ski jumpers go when they launch into the air
Maren Lundby of Norway jumped 360.89 feet, while Andreas Wellinger of Germany jumped over 372 feet …