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Tragic pictures show three dead sperm whales washed up on UK beach hours after another was caught in a low tide and died 
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The whales were washed up on the Lincolnshire coast this morning after another sperm whale was found caught on rocks off the coast in Norfolk.

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Workers haul away the carcasses of beached sperm whales in Germany
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clean-up has begun on the island of Wangerooge, off the northern coast of Germany, after two sperm whales were stranded on its beaches earlier this week.

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Whales, Gods, Prophecy and Meteors
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It also appears in prophecy and saintly goodness, in cathedrals, Bach Passions, and Gospel choirs, in the impulses of deep ecology and in the best of nature writing. It's a crucial ingredient in Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, T. S. Eliot, Melville, Thoreau, and …

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Pod of pilot whales at Japan's Taiji cove circle together as hunters round them up
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Poignant footage captures the mammals gathering in a tiny circle, clinging together to protect themselves from injury as the men drive the animals towards the netted shoreline in the cove.

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These Smiling Whales Look Like Cartoonish Aliens | The …
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two very rare False Killer Whales were caught on camera recently acting very playful and even appearing to smile for the camera while swimming off Hawaii.

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Blue whales in the Indian Ocean captured by drone camera off Sri Lanka
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Patrick Dykstra, 35, from Denver, recorded the amazing scenes off the coast of Sri Lanka and also managed to snap breathtaking underwater shots of the majestic creatures.

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Whales get tangled in shark nets while sleep swimming during winter migration
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Experts believe whales are falling asleep in the water as they migrate during the winter and are ‘sleep swimming’ straight into treacherous shark nets.

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160 Beached Whales May Be a Japanese Earthquake Warning – Mysterious Universe
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It would not be the first time this sort of sad sight warned of an impending earthquake or tsunami, for that matter. Animals seem to have an innate and unexplained ability to sense subtle changes in something in the environment around them that triggers them to go into high alert mode when a natural and […]

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Genome Sequencing of 200-Year-Old Whales May Help Humans Fight Disease
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“I was excited during the course of this project that we discovered changes in bowhead genes related to cell cycle, DNA repair, cancer, and aging that suggest alterations that may be biologically-relevant,” senior author João Pedro de Magalhães told …

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Biologists shoot video of killer whales 'attacking,' eating 7-foot tiger shark
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Great white shark attacks have commanded headlines this summer, but a pair of marine researchers who captured shocking video of a pod of killer whales attacking and eating a tiger shark may have earned the prize for the top animal…

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