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October 20, 2015

New baby orca, other discoveries made by biologists tracking whales off West Coast

A new baby orca wasn't the only interesting discovery researchers made while tracking endangered killer whales.

October 20, 2015

Emaciated sea lion rescued on San Francisco boulevard, hundreds of feet away from beach

Officials say that an emaciated sea lion yearling that was probably looking for food was rescued along a major San Francisco boulevard, more than 1,000 feet from the ocean.

October 20, 2015

1, 2, 3 octopuses: Off Seattle coast, volunteer divers conduct an underwater census

To check on the health of the giant Pacific octopus population in Puget Sound, an unusual census takes place every year. Volunteer divers, enlisted by the Seattle Aquarium, take to Washington's inland waters to look for their eight-tentacle neighbors.

October 20, 2015

Swimming owl caught on video

A photographer has captured the unusual sight of an owl taking a dip in Lake Michigan.

October 20, 2015

Family saves three baby sharks through C-section

Performing an emergency C-section on a shark may not be part of a typical beach outing, but for one family that is exactly what happened. 

October 20, 2015

Deer with 'vampire fangs' spotted for 1st time in decades

An endangered deer with vampirelike fangs was spotted for the first time in nearly 60 years, in a remote forest in northeastern Afghanistan

October 20, 2015

Scientist slammed for killing puppy-sized spider

When scientist Piotr Naskrecki encountered a puppy-sized spider in Guyana, his photos of the giant arachnid quickly became an Internet sensation. While the huge spider generated massive buzz, however, the Harvard researcher has come in for a firestorm of criticism for killing the creature and bringing it back to a museum.

October 20, 2015

Giant, extinct Kangaroos probably didn't hop

The ancestors of modern-day kangaroos, giant marsupials with rabbitlike faces, may have walked upright on two feet, sans any hopping, a new study finds.

October 20, 2015

Jumbo squid attack submarine

It is like a scene from an old wives' tale about the giant, tentacled kraken dragging shipping vessels to their doom — two Humboldt squid, flashing an angry red, attack a Dual Deep Worker submersible containing two Greenpeace USA divers on an expedition in the Bering Sea. In a Vine video shot by one of the divers, the two large cephalopods, also commonly referred to as “jumbo squid” or “red devils,” rush at the submersible while spewing vision-obscuring clouds of ink.

October 20, 2015

Often pesky beavers put to work restoring streams

In a heavily irrigated Washington valley where fish, crops and people often compete for water, biologists are turning to one of nature's best engineers to help restore streams and salmon habitat.