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AP – Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them — an open challenge to Japan’s killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in the name of science.
AP – A teenage New Zealand girl bitten by a shark bashed it over the head with her body board until it let her go, she said.
AFP – A 14-year-old New Zealand girl escaped serious injury in a shark attack by furiously beating the creature about the head with her body board until it let go, it was reported Tuesday.
AP – The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for allegedly failing to clean up toxic, lead-based paint at federal facilities on Midway Atoll.
AP – Giant squid weighing up to 60 pounds have invaded the California waters off Newport Beach and are being caught by sport fishermen by the hundreds.
