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First C-Section Performed on a Shark!

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August 6, 2013) – For the first time in SeaWorld’s history, a Cesarean section has been performed on a shark. A team of shark experts and veterinarians performed the groundbreaking procedure on a whitetip reef shark at Discovery Cove, SeaWorld’s sister park, in Orlando on July 18, 2013. sharks wildlife'

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New Laws to Start in California

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California SB 917 Two new laws in Oregon and California prohibit the possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins. The California law specifies that a person must hold a license in order to possess shark fins for scientific purposes. In addition, restaurants may possess and sell shark fins purchased before Jan.

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All about alcids: Extravagant divers of northern oceans

10,000 Birds

They’re also more vulnerable to attack from large cold-blooded predators like sharks. In warmer waters, cold-blooded organisms can move faster, but warm-blooded organisms don’t get that boost and can’t efficiently keep up with prey. See Cairns et al.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

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Most of Waldman’s Introduction, for example, is based on five photographs and drawings illustrating random, perhaps representational, examples of how New Yorkers relate to nature in the past (a shark is killed in the Gowanus Canal in 1950) and the present (the fight to re-install the nest of my spark bird, Pale Male). Just a little.

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