Dolphin may get a prosthetic tail
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The news from Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action.
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WINDLEY KEY, Fla. - A dolphin's toy that resembled a bomb scared spectators Wednesday and prompted officials at a marine park to call 911. A dolphin playing in a tank at Theater of the Sea surfaced with several items, including one that looked like a homemade bomb.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.  &quot;I&#39;m reading this in the literature and thinking, &#39;This doesn&#39;t make any sense to me as a veterinarian,&#39;&quot; said Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian-turned-paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies. ...
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The Miami Dolphins may have found a replacement for retired running back Ricky Williams.
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A cat cloned to replace a dead pet for a Texas woman stirs ethical debate. Also: Scientists discover monster cockroach and mini crab in Indonesia.... EU caves in on stronger fishing limits.... and more.
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By KURT LOFT  To see exotic sea creatures up close and personal, you once had to don scuba gear and jump overboard.  Now, the fish are coming to you.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers saved a rare  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami which devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed to find her calf in  a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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Who says superheroes don't exist? In China a towering shepherd used his extra-long arms to pull plastic from two dolphins' bellies&#8212;succeeding where veterinarians had been powerless.
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Scientists draw inspiration from the lizard to develop a waterproof adhesive bandage for surgical wounds.
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You try singing and dancing while wearing a tail. More than a little difficult. Yet "The Little Mermaid" Â tail intact Â amiably swims along on good cheer and charm.
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Ricky Williams&#39;s representatives apparently are close to completing an agreement with the NFL that could make the retired Miami Dolphins tailback eligible to play at the outset of the 2005 season.
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Experts say a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze River is a member of a dolphin species unique to China and feared extinct.
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Barbaro's right hind bones are healing so well his cast could have been off by now, if not for the laminitis in his other hind leg.
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It sounds like a stretch, but a new study suggests that the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd raccoon-sized animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers. Or an overgrown long-legged rat.
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Some people are born to be the life and soul of the party -- and so it seems are some dolphins.
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DAVIE, Fla. -- In the same week that news broke about Ricky Williams&#39; new calling as a holistic healer, there&#39;s now word that he could be back in a Dolphins uniform by the end of the season.