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Neaera writes and illustrates children's books but she has grown tired of creating furry and feathery characters: perversely, she ponders a new story about a water beetle. Both visit the London Zoo and independently reach the same conclusion: the sea turtles in the aquarium must be liberated and allowed to swim back to their breeding grounds in the Atlantic...
...million for its makers, the movie Jaws is spattering finny largesse all over the pop landscape. Shark teeth, selling for as much as $100 apiece unmounted, have bitten off a sizable hunk of the gimcrackery market in the form of necklaces, earrings and bracelets; Boston's New England Aquarium even sells small molars for 25? each. Fishing-gear dealers report a surging demand for the extra-heavy rigs-ranging in price from $200 to $1,000-that are needed to land the beasts on beach or boat. Shark-hunting clubs are booming...
...Through Oct. 15, the MFA, Museum of Science, Museum of Transportation, Aquarium, Franklin Park Zoo and a handful of other museums are offering two-for-the-price-of-one admission to students with college...
...Jazzboat will be leaving from Long Wharf next to the Boston Aquarium at 7:30 and 9:30 Wednesday with The East Bay City Jazz Band and The Black Eagle. Trio, two of the city's better trade bands, on board. Don Angle will also be playing ragtime piano. Tickets are $4.00 for one show...
...food in their stomachs and were suffering from serious infestations of parasitic worms in their middle ears and sinuses. According to Marine Biologists James G. Mead of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History in Washington and John H. Prescott of Boston's New England Aquarium, the worms had apparently been taken in along with meals of fish or squid. Once entrenched, they may have interfered with the whales' highly sensitive, sonar-like echo-location system, which enables them to spot schools offish and other objects. The whales' hearing is an essential part...