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New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» NEW YORK - Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics -- but how much is too much?
130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under scalpel
AFP, Published on 04/04/2025
» YAKUTSK — Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.
Baffert-trained Medina Spirit stripped of 2021 Kentucky Derby victory
AFP, Published on 22/02/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Medina Spirit has been stripped of last year's Kentucky Derby victory and trainer Bob Baffert suspended and fined over the colt's positive drug test last May, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) said Monday.
Whale that won Canadian hearts found dead
AFP, Published on 10/06/2020
» SOREL, Canada: A young humpback whale that swam up one of Canada's major rivers, delighting Montrealers who packed the shores for a glimpse of the first of the species in local waters, is believed to have died, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
No evidence of crimes in Santa Anita horse deaths: prosecutor
AFP, Published on 20/12/2019
» LOS ANGELES - An investigation into the deaths of dozens of horses at California's famed Santa Anita racetrack has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing or animal cruelty, prosecutors in Los Angeles said Thursday.
Dead whale in Philippines had 40kg of plastic in stomach
AFP, Published on 18/03/2019
» MANILA: A starving whale with 40 kilos of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.