A whale around 15 meters long was found dead Sunday at a beach between the towns Las Merceditas and Los Blancos, near Enriquillo, on the coast of Barahona (southwest).
People who found the whale carcass immediately contacted the authorities of the town, drawing dozens of onlookers to the beach.
The type of whale and how it died are unknown thus far, for which the Environment Ministry was called in to determine the cause.
However most locals agree that the whale could've asphyxiated under its own weight after being beached.
Seabirds have been washing up dead on beaches in Washington and British Columbia this summer. Something is taking a toll on a funny-sounding, peculiar-looking seabird.
Julia Parrish studies seabirds at the University of Washington. She says volunteer beach-watchers on the Olympic Peninsula and across the water in Victoria have seen dozens of auklets wash up dead.
A few of the bodies have been sent off to a federal forensics lab.
"These birds are severely emaciated. So they starved to death," Parrish said.
But scientists don't know yet why the birds starved. They're working to answer that question.
Ekin Karasin Daily Mail Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:27 UTC
This is the moment an enraged wild boar (pictured) charged at sunbathers relaxing on a beach after it emerged from a nearby forest in Karwia, northern Poland
This is the moment an enraged wild boar charged at sunbathers relaxing on a beach after it emerged from a nearby forest.
Incredible footage showed the beast knocking people over their chairs and sand castles before taking down nearby women and children.
The animal appeared to be on a rampage, even chasing panicked tourists into the sea at the beach in Karwia, northern Poland.
The animal appeared to be on a rampage, even chasing panicked tourists into the sea at the beach
Various video excerpts on social media show the wild animal charging at people and tipping them over their wind blockers.
The carcass of a beaked whale was found on the shore in Basco, Batanes, the office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the province has reported.
The beaked whale was found by some residents at around 8 a.m. on Friday, GMA News' Unang Balita reported on Monday.
According to BFAR, the beaked whale sustained stabbed wounds in different parts of the body, mostly in the ventral region, or the abdomen area.
The bureau also noted that there is an estimated 20-25 kilograms of missing flesh in the dorsal area, or the back portion of the beaked whale.
The authorities tried to perform further examination on the carcass but was unable to do so because of the early decomposition of the dead beaked whale.
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Bekah Nelson, spokeswoman for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said in that story that the agency took samples earlier in the week but did not find any blooms.
Jennifer Dixon and Jim Schaefer Detroit Free Press Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:42 UTC
A 71-year-old southwest Detroit woman was attacked and killed by her own pit bull dog Saturday night, police said.
Authorities said Elizabeth Rivera died in the attack. She died of a crush injury to the neck, said Lloyd Jackson, a spokesman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office. He said that the manner of death was accident. An autopsy was performed today.
The incident happened about 8 p.m. at her home in the 2000 block of Ferdinand, near Vernor Highway, according to Sgt. Michael Woody of Detroit Police.
Woody said the dog, one of four in the home, bit the woman, knocking her down, and then bit her throat, severing her jugular vein. She died at the scene.
Two farmers were critically injured after a bear attacked them in Kathiripalli area on Friday morning. The farmers are undergoing treatment at the Krishnagiri government hospital.
Meanwhile, the forest officers, who sighted the bear later on Friday, managed to chase it into the Kariyanapalli forests, said sources with the forest department.
The injured farmers have been identified as 80-year-old Munusamy and 64-year-old Ganesh Rao. They owned land abutting each other in Bheemantapalli.
On Friday morning, the duo from Kathiripalli and a neighbouring village went to their respective farms at 5.30am to start the day's work. Hardly five minutes later, a large bear came charging out of the forest area surrounding their farms and pounced on Munusamy.
In the attack,Munusamy sustained several wounds. The bear also bit his legs badly.
According to Krishnagiri police, when the bear noticed Rao's movement in the neighbouring land, the animal left Munusamy and chased Rao and pounced on him too. Rao also sustained severe injuries.
A carcass believed to be that of a beached whale calf was found at Pantai Puteri
A carcass believed to be that of a beached whale calf was found at Pantai Puteri here yesterday.
The carcass, measuring about two metres, was found by a Civil Defence Department (JPAM) personnel around 1am.
JPAM personnel Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah, 61, said the carcass was found by his colleague, who was on duty at a nearby lookout tower.
He said his colleague initially thought that the large object was a wooden stump washed in by the waves. "Upon further inspection, he realised that the object was a dead whale calf," he said when met at the beach yesterday.
Ridzuan said there were visible injuries on the whale, believed to have been inflicted by a ship's propeller.
It is learnt that the carcass would be collected by SWM Environment Sdn Bhd workers for disposal.
Six years after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig spilled nearly three million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found that ultraviolet light is transforming the remaining oil into a more toxic substance that hinders the development of heart, eye, and brain function in fish. The research, led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Miami, exposed embryos and larvae of mahi-mahi from the Gulf of Mexico to what they called weathered (exposed to years of sunlight) and un-weathered oil (taken from the drilling site) from the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Compared to fish exposed to un-weathered oil, the fish exposed to the weathered oil experienced impaired eye and neurological function, reduced heart rates, and a buildup of excess fluid in the heart.
"To this day, we remain uncertain of the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill effects, particularly in sensitive life stages of fish," said Daniel Schlenk, a professor of aquatic ecotoxicology, who led the study, published in Environmental Science and Technology. "We are also uncertain of whether biota exposed to the oil can recover, or have recovered, from this event. And we are still uncertain about how compounds present in oil or any other combustion byproduct or fossil fuel cause toxicity."
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