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Dead whale shark found on the shore of Tagum City, Philippines

A dead whale shark was spotted at the shoreline in Barangay Cabugan, Tagum City, Davao del Norte Tuesday dawn, August 7, 2018.
© Darell Blatchley
A dead whale shark was spotted at the shoreline in Barangay Cabugan, Tagum City, Davao del Norte Tuesday dawn, August 7, 2018.
Experts are investigating the death of a whale shark that was spotted at the shoreline in Barangay Cabugan, Tagum City, Davao del Norte Tuesday dawn.

In his Facebook post, Darrell Blatchley, owner of D' Bone Museum in Davao City, captured a photo of a dead whale while rested on the shoreline after it was washed ashore.

Blatchley told SunStar Davao that it was found lifeless around 5 a.m. on August 7.

The whale shark measures 14 feet or 4.3 meters.

Blatchley said they will conduct a necropsy, a surgical examination of the dead animal, to learn its cause of death.

He added that remains will be brought to the museum.

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Three dead beaked whales found in 'highly unusual' strandings on west coast of Ireland

Stranding on Gola Island

Stranding on Gola Island
About 175 whale and dolphin strandings have been reported so far this year.

Three beaked whales were found dead in three separate locations in Donegal and Mayo over the weekend.

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group has described the strandings as "highly unusual" for the deep-diving mammal.

The IWDG reported that in Donegal, one whale was found floating in Sheephaven Bay and another on Gola Island, while in Mayo the third whale was found at Tirraun on the Mullet Peninsula.

According to the IWDG, three or four strandings of the animals, which are known as Cuvier's beaked whales, in one year is relatively normal but "it is highly unusual to have three recorded in separate locations on the one day".

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Reflection in the window or 'Gollum' in Canadian woods?

Gollum
© YouTube/Kong Viral
SPOOKY footage of faceless creature spotted in woods in Canada.
A mysterious faceless beast has been captured on camera stalking a moose.

While Audree Frechette was filming a moose peacefully feeding by the side of a desolate road in Gaspé Valley in Quebec, she didn't expect the camera to film anything unusual. But when she re-watched the tape, she noticed a pale, faceless monster-like creature hiding in the shadows. Compared to the moose, it was 6ft (1.8 meters) tall and appeared to be eying the animal.

The video went viral, garnering almost 700,000 views in just one week. Many of YouTube users thought that the creature resembled Gollum - a lean, pale character in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Others remembered Rake - a monster that was supposedly seen in 2009 in the woods of Canada.

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One of two stranded humpback whales dies in Northland, New Zealand

Volunteers trying to save the larger whale.
© Northern Advocate
Volunteers trying to save the larger whale.
One of two humpback whales stranded on a Northland beach has died.

It is understood the dead whale is a calf.

"Sadly the smaller of the two whales had died and iwi have blessed," Project Jonah posted this morning.

"The rescue effort for the remaining whale has ramped up with channels being dug."

Rescuers trying to free the stranded humpbacks resumed work this morning, with the aim of turning the mammals and digging a trench in their bid to set them free.

The two whales, who Department of Conservation believe to be a mother and calf, were first spotted stuck on Ripiro Beach, 2km south of Baylys Beach, Northland.


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Dead minke whale washes up at Marshfield, Massachusetts

New England Aquarium officials are investigating after the 27-foot long minke whale was found dead Sunday morning near Marshfield’s Brant Rock.

New England Aquarium officials are investigating after the 27-foot long minke whale was found dead Sunday morning near Marshfield’s Brant Rock.
A whale in distress died near a Massachusetts beach after getting caught in a jetty.

"It's so sad to see it wash up. Yesterday,I think last night, it was flopping around. It was definitely struggling," said beachgoer Brianna Saad.

"This is the first one that I've seen down here," said beachgoer, Michael Saad.

A whale washed up on this Ocean Street inlet on Sunday, causing quite the stir alongside this sandy beach.

The sick whale dying overnight inside the Marshfield jetty.

Shelia Buckley watched the sad scene unfold from her front porch.


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Dead blue whale washes ashore at beach in Kamakura, Japan - first time for the country

A dead whale that washed up on Yuigahama Beach is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Aug. 5, 2018.
© Mainichi
A dead whale that washed up on Yuigahama Beach is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Aug. 5, 2018.
A dead whale measuring 10.6 meters washed ashore here Aug. 5, stunning hordes of sun-worshipers at popular Yuigahama beach.

Experts from the Enoshima Aquarium in Fujisawa, also on the Pacific coast of Kanagawa Prefecture, said the animal was believed to belong to the baleen whale family.

The whale was spotted around 2:30 p.m., having apparently died at sea.

Experts from the city government's tourism section and the Enoshima Aquarium rushed to the scene after police were alerted to the whale's presence.

It washed up near the west end of the beach.


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25 dead fur seals found at Te Oka Bay, New Zealand

Young fur seals, like this one on Ninety Mile Beach last August, often come ashore in winter.
© Ray Wiblin
Young fur seals, like this one on Ninety Mile Beach last August, often come ashore in winter.
Multiple mass deaths of New Zealand fur seals on the Canterbury coast have been reported to the Department of Conservation this year.

Andy Thompson, the operations manager for DoC's Mahaanui/Sockburn office in Christchurch, said today's find of about 25 dead seals at Te Oka Bay repeated a pattern of the last four months in the vicinity.


The difference, however, was that the two earlier finds along the southern bays of Banks Peninsula, each of about a dozen dead seals, were of younger animals.

DoC staff would retrieve the dead seals from Te Oka Bay tomorrow, following the grisly find by members of the public.

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Man killed by shark in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt

Shark attacks
A Czech tourist has been killed in a shark attack off the coast of an Egyptian Red Sea resort, the first such incident in the country since 2015.

The man was swimming off the beach in Marsa Allam on Friday when the shark struck, a Czech foreign ministry official told The Telegraph.

Local media reported that only some of his remains washed up on shore.

The Czech tourist was holidaying with his family in the popular Red Sea tourist destination. They have since returned home and are waiting for his remains, the Czech official said.

A local newspaper, Al-Mal, reported that Egypt's environment ministry, which would take part in investigating such attacks, had posted then promptly deleted a statement on its Facebook page sharing details of the mauling.

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Woman bitten in rare attack by moray eel off Hawaii

Marine experts were shocked to discover Porter had suffered a rare eel bite. Waikiki Aquarium director Andrew Rossiter said it was likely a moray eel at least five feet in length (stock image)

Marine experts were shocked to discover Porter had suffered a rare eel bite. Waikiki Aquarium director Andrew Rossiter said it was likely a moray eel at least five feet in length (stock image)
A woman has described the moment she was bitten by a giant eel while sunbathing at a beach in Hawaii.

Kristen Porter was lounging on a floatie off of Kuhio Beach on the afternoon of July 29 when she felt something bite her.

'My feet were dangling down and I was there for hours, so I was completely surprised that all of a sudden something attacked my foot,' the mom vacationing from Annapolis, Maryland, told KHON.

'I couldn't believe it, but I knew immediately that it was something bad, and it wasn't just like a fish nibble, so I pulled my foot into the air and there was blood everywhere.'

Porter's son and two other beachgoers helped her to the shore, where a lifeguard examined the wound and told her she'd been bitten by an eel.


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Russian scientists discover region's largest mammoth tusk yet in Ural mountains

largest mammoth tusk russia
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Paleontologists are celebrating after discovering the largest mammoth tusk ever found in Russia
Paleontologists are celebrating after discovering the largest mammoth tusk ever found in Russia.

Part of the tusk of a steppe mammoth was found during an an expedition in the Ural Mountains in the Prikamye region of central Russia's Perm Krai region.

Paleontologists initially thought they had found just a small section of tusk - but when it was fully excavated it measured 3.15 metres (10ft 4ins) long and 22 centimetres (8.7 ins) in diameter.

Comment: What kind of world was able to support such massive creatures?