Elusive Manatee Found Dead; Had Fled Rescuers for Miles
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By AP Wire Service  MEMPHIS, Tenn.  -- A manatee that traveled 720 miles up the Mississippi River and eluded his would-be rescuers was found dead Monday on the banks of a lake, police said.    Police spokesman Sgt.
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A 3 1/2-foot alligator has been captured walking along a Long Island roadway. Chief Roy Gross of the Suffolk County SPCA said the reptile was found by two people who were walking alongside a grassy area of Route 25A in Wading River on Sunday afternoon.
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FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. - It's a sight not often seen in rural central Indiana - a 6-foot-tall kangaroo bounding around on the loose.  Hancock County Animal Control officers helped capture the Australian marsupial, an escaped pet named Skippy, early Monday not far from its home.
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Police fail to save man from fatal mauling by rottweiler-type animal
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By CHARLES HUTZLER  BEIJING - An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.
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The United States military attache in Cyprus was found dead on Monday, four days after he disappeared, the American embassy said.
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A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.
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By CARRIE ANTLFINGER MILWAUKEE - A whooping crane was spotted alive on Sunday after it was believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms, according to an organizer of a migratory project.
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A killer whale at the SeaWorld in San Antonio has died unexpectedly.
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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 27--MANATEE -- With June rain levels well below normal, much-needed rain is expected this week, bringing relief, but not an end to parched conditions caused by the lingering drought.
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A senior American diplomat who disappeared four days ago with his car was found dead Monday on Cyprus in a rural area outside the capital, officials said.
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One of two fishermen missing in the Irish Sea was found alive today. The missing crewman, Shane Murnaghan, was found floating in a life-raft nine miles from the Isle of Man - inside the area where a major ...
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National park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are battling to save a 2-month-old gorilla found clinging to its dead mother, who was shot dead through the back of the head, conservationists said on Sunday.
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HONOLULU - An endangered monk seal drowned over the weekend after becoming trapped in an unattended fishing net off Oahu's Makua Beach. Another monk seal found partially entangled in the gill net on Sunday survived.
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SAN FRANCISCO â One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.
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ROSE CITY, Mich. - Police spent Tuesday morning rounding up a host of four-legged fugitives turned loose after a truck delivering them to northeast Michigan pet stores collided with a tractor.
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A US diplomat in Cyprus who vanished four days ago is found dead on a remote part of the island.