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2 dead whales wash up on Bangladesh shore in two days

Daily Sabah
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:23 UTC

Two dead whales, one of which is 16-meters long, washed up on Bangladesh's shore over two days, officials said Saturday, raising suggestions that they were killed by sea pollution.

Officials said the second, much longer whale washed up on Himchhari Beach, outside the resort city of Cox's Bazar, at around 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. GMT) Saturday, just a day after the carcass of another Bryde's whale was found 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) from the spot.

"The carcass of the whale found today is at least 50 feet (16 meters) long and 10 feet wide. It weighs 3 to 4 tonnes," Jahirul Islam, executive director of the Cox's Bazar-based Marine Life Alliance, told AFP.

Islam said the whales could have been killed in a collision with a ship plying the Bay of Bengal, or have died after eating plastics that litter the sea.

4th dead gray whale found in the San Francisco Bay Area in just over a week

nbcbayarea.com
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:33 UTC

At least four gray whales have been found dead in the Bay Area in just over a week, The Marine Mammal Center said Thursday.

The first one washed up last Wednesday at Crissy Field in San Francisco, the center said. The second one washed up Saturday at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in San Mateo County. A third one was found this week floating in the San Francisco Bay.

The fourth whale washed ashore at Muir Beach in Marin County, the center said Thursday.

Scientists from the mammal center were unable to determine a cause of death for the whale found at Crissy Field. They are still investigating the deaths of the other three whales.

Three dead gray whales found in San Francisco Bay area in a week

Azenith Smith
KTVU FOX 2
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:26 UTC

Three gray whales have been found dead in and around the San Francisco Bay in the past week. It's raising concern among marine scientists who said that number is alarming.

It's the start of the whales' northern migration. The center expects one or two whales to wash ashore in a couple weeks but three within a week is a lot. It's reminiscent of 2019 when there was a high number of whale deaths in the Bay.

In scenic San Francisco Bay lies a sad discovery Wednesday, the carcass of a 33-foot male gray whale.

"These creatures, they are such magnificent creatures and to see them dead like this is really heartbreaking," said Sea Valor CEO/Founder Eric Jones.

Comment: Report from January this year: Nearly 400 Gray Whales have died off the west coast since 2019

Over 80 melon-headed whales wash ashore in Ghana

Modern Ghana
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 14:23 UTC

Over 80 large mammals believed to be melon-headed whales were on Sunday, April 4 washed ashore at the Axim-Bewire beach in the Nzema East Municipality.

Speaking to Citi News, the Western Regional Acting Director of the Fisheries Commission, Alhassan Arafat Salifu said, he is unable to tell the cause of the incident, although most of the mammals washed ashore were dead while some were also found alive.

"We are now counting to know the actual numbers that were washed ashore since they are in different parts of the beach. Some are still struggling to breathe and some are dead," he said.

An Ontario teenager has died after reportedly being attacked by 3 dogs

Lisa Belmonte
Narcity
Sat, 03 Apr 2021 10:58 UTC

An Ontario dog attack has reportedly resulted in the death of a teenager and the OPP is investigating.

According to a press release posted by the St. George Lance and the Paris Chronicle, officers responded to a report of a death at a residence in Middlesex County on April 1.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and has been identified as 17-year-old Megan Fisher from Chippewas of the Thames First Nation.

An examination after her death revealed that she died because of injuries she got from three dogs on the property.

It was said that the dogs are now in a shelter under a quarantine order.

Thousands of fish thrown ashore in Russia, ecologist claims it's a sign stocks have recovered

RT
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 10:29 UTC

Images have emerged online showing the coast of the Russian Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean covered with fish. With ecologists saying they're safe to eat, excited fishermen hurried to the seafront for the easiest catch.

Videos of Pacific herring covering Sakhalin's south-western coastline were posted online on Sunday. What looks like thousands of fish, both moving and still, can be seen ashore, with excited men walking among them.

Local ecologist Dmitry Lisitsyn, who posted some of the videos, said that, far from being an ecological disaster, this is a positive sign. The fish, also known as California herring, are on their spawning run, and there are so many that some of them are being washed ashore. The phenomenon shows that the herring population is not endangered, according to the expert.

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Woman in her 80s mauled to death by 2 dogs in Birmingham, UK

Jane Tyler
Birmingham Mail
Sat, 03 Apr 2021 11:40 UTC

The pensioner was mauled to death in the back garden of her home in Boundary Avenue, Rowley Regis

Police are continuing to investigate a horrific fatal attack by two dogs on a woman in her 80s in a shocking Good Friday tragedy.

The pensioner was mauled to death in the back garden of her Black Country home yesterday (Friday) afternoon.

A man has been arrested and is continuing to be questioned by police today.

Here is everything we know so far:

3,000-year-old mural of knife-wielding spider god discovered in Peru

Isaac Schultz
Gizmodo
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:33 UTC

© Screenshot: Agencia de Noticias Andina/YouTube
A view of the uncovered mural. The spider’s leg and hilt of the knife are visible.

It likely had eight legs, and at least one of them is still brandishing a knife. That's the report from archaeologists in northern Peru, who have announced the discovery of a 50-foot mural that once was the centerpiece of a pre-Columbian shrine.

The find was made in November 2020, when farmers seeking to expand their land partially destroyed a huaca — a Peruvian ceremonial structure — sitting among their avocado and sugar cane crops. The huaca, now cut in half, revealed a striking mural.

"What we have here is a shrine that would have been a ceremonial centre thousands of years ago," Régulo Franco Jordán, one of the archaeologists who went about excavating and preserving the elements of the ancient artwork that hadn't been demolished, told the Peruvian newspaper La República.

'Wormnado': Herd of hundreds of worms captured moving in spiral baffles scientists

Strange Sounds
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:00 UTC

Spring rains often bring scores of earthworms to the surface, where they writhe on top of soil and sidewalks. But recently, heavy rainfall in a town near New York City was followed by something a little more unusual: a wormnado.

A resident of Hoboken, New Jersey was out for a morning walk in a park near the Hudson River on March 25, when she spotted hundreds of worms spread along the walkway. The woman, who asked not to be identified, told Live Science that after her initial surprise she noticed something even more bizarre — a number of the worms had formed a cyclone-like shape, creating a spiral where the edge of the grass met the concrete.

The woman took photographs and sent them to Tiffanie Fisher, a member of the Hoboken City Council, who shared the images of the "tornado of worms" on Facebook. "Clearly worms come out after it rains but this is something I've never seen!" Fisher wrote in the post.

Comment: It was recently discovered that numerous marine creatures also exhibit an as yet unexplained circling motion when traveling: Enigmatic circling behavior observed in numerous marine animals

For more unusual vortex action in nature, see:

Lightning strike kills 19 cattle near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Bulawayo24 News
Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:04 UTC

Five families on the outskirts of Victoria Falls under Chief Mvuthu were left counting their losses after 19 cattle were killed by lightning during a heavy storm in the early hours of Saturday.

The cattle are part of a community project, which was established in 2016 by ten villagers who are into farming who are being assisted by Wild is Life Trust, an organisation that is into wild animal conservation.

The project had 72 cattle before tragedy struck.

The farmers take intervals to keep the cattle and they are meant to assist with manure for their communal farms.

The incident, according to Joseph Ncube who lost four of his cattle is suspected to have happened around 2 AM.

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Animals

2 dead whales wash up on Bangladesh shore in two days

4th dead gray whale found in the San Francisco Bay Area in just over a week

Three dead gray whales found in San Francisco Bay area in a week

Over 80 melon-headed whales wash ashore in Ghana

An Ontario teenager has died after reportedly being attacked by 3 dogs

Thousands of fish thrown ashore in Russia, ecologist claims it's a sign stocks have recovered

Woman in her 80s mauled to death by 2 dogs in Birmingham, UK

3,000-year-old mural of knife-wielding spider god discovered in Peru

'Wormnado': Herd of hundreds of worms captured moving in spiral baffles scientists

Lightning strike kills 19 cattle near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

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