Word: aquarium
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When I tutored in Dorchester, part of my work was helping kids leave their apartment complexes on daytrips to urban educational resources like the aquarium or the museum. But here in the Achievement Abyss, there is no aquarium, only endless cotton fields and rusty farming equipment...
What about an animal that isn't supposed to have any legs at all and yet still needs to get around? Fuji, the dolphin that lost 75% of her tail, had just enough left that researchers at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan could affix a rubber tail, designed by sculptor Kazuhiko Yakushiji, onto her mangled tailfin with reinforced plastic and metal screws. Winter, a dolphin that lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is completely tailless as a result of an injury from a crab trap, presents a much bigger challenge. Hanger Orthopedic Group in Bethesda...
That's the conclusion of a recent report in the online journal Science Express. Oceanographer Kenneth Smith Jr., of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., led a team of scientists that studied two bergs, one about 1.25 miles (2 km) long and the other closer to 13 miles (21 km), in the Weddell Sea, which lies between the Antarctic continent and the southern Atlantic, near the tip of Argentina...
Remember Your Childhood Indulge in a cinematic exploration that harks back to those glorious, care-free days of childhood with a visit to the New England Aquarium to see “Lions 3D: Roar of the Kalahari!” New England Aquarium, Adult...
...wait. It's all right. It's good news. Two blue dolphins were choking on plastic they ate off the side of their aquarium pool, and no medical instrument could access the blockage. So, for a change, something sensible was done. The world's tallest man, all seven-foot-nine of him, was summoned - from the flock (of what, yaks?) he was herding in Inner Mongolia. His great long arm reached in past the gag reflex, grabbed the plastic and pulled it out! Mission accomplished...