By Wayne Thompson
4:00 AM Monday Dec 28, 2009

Residents worry that the under-threat cockle population could disappear from the large beds north of Auckland. Photo / Greg Bowker
Fishery officials aim to ban recreational harvesting at the biggest shellfish beds near Auckland, saying a natural disaster has wiped out 80 per cent of breeding-size cockles.
A three-year ban [...]

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10:22 AM Monday Dec 28, 2009

More than 120 whales died over 48 hours in two separate beachings, the Department of Conservation says.
More than 20 pilot whales will be buried by Coromandel Maori today after dying when they became stranded yesterday.
Sixty-three whales, mostly cows with calves, beached themselves at Colville Bay, north of Coromandel township.
The 3-4 [...]

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Check out some great video footage taken by Arman at the Poor Knights Islands in November 2009.

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By Robert L. Pitman and John W. Durban

Last January we sailed from the tip of South America to the Antarctic Peninsula on the sixty-five-foot yacht Golden Fleece, in search of killer whales. The kind we were looking for—which potentially constitute a new species—prey on seals that live on and around the sea ice. We hoped [...]

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Source: ONE News
Video filmed off the Indonesian coast shows a veined octopus collecting a coconut shell, scampering off with it, and using it later as a house.

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