Read more dolphin stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8491/dolphin.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:58:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69031/japanese-cove-town-to-release-dolphins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Japanese town that triggered a furor after a documentary highlighted its dolphin slaughter is granting a reprieve to 100 of the animals, reports AP. Some 50 dolphins will be sold to aquariums, and the remainder of the 100 trapped for yesterday's first hunt of the season will be released...http://www.newser.com/story/69031/japanese-cove-town-to-release-dolphins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 3:55:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65400/nz-woman-rescued-from-too-friendly-dolphin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMoko, the famously friendly dolphin who hangs around the beach in Mahia, New Zealand, nearly accidentally killed a woman yesterday, the Gisborne Herald reports. The woman had been playing with the dolphin, and it refused to let her return to shore. "When I wanted to go back in, he just...http://www.newser.com/story/65400/nz-woman-rescued-from-too-friendly-dolphin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Jul 2009 14:30:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54338/aussies-cant-save-87-stranded-whales.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRescue crews saved four long-finned pilot whales after a mass stranding in Western Australia’s Hamelin Bay, but scores of others died, the West Australian reports. Eighty-seven whales and dolphins beached Monday, prompting more than 250 volunteers and 100 conservation workers to spend a near-freezing night on the beach nursing the...http://www.newser.com/story/54338/aussies-cant-save-87-stranded-whales.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 25 Mar 2009 11:40:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52176/aussies-herd-beached-whales-back-to-sea.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRescuers using boats, stretchers, and a jet ski hauled dozens of whales and dolphins back to sea after 200 were beached on an Australian island, the Daily Telegraph reports. Some 59 animals were saved, ABC notes, as rescuers dug trenches and draped cloths over the whales to keep them cool...http://www.newser.com/story/52176/aussies-herd-beached-whales-back-to-sea.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Mar 2009 7:46:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/34694/humpbacks-no-longer-in-danger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHumpback whales, once feared to be on the verge of extinction, have made such a dramatic comeback that the International Union for Conservation of Nature has removed them from its list of vulnerable species. A ban on humpback whaling in the 1960s has allowed their numbers to grow to 55,...http://www.newser.com/story/34694/humpbacks-no-longer-in-danger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 12 Aug 2008 9:56:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26087/as-currency-dolphin-teeth-feel-recessions-bite.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSpinner dolphins had better watch out—their pearly whites are again a fast-growing currency in the South Pacific, the Wall Street Journal reports. Economic troubles in the Solomon Islands have caused many to return to the traditional trading chip. “Dolphin teeth are like gold,” says the governor of the nation's...http://www.newser.com/story/26087/as-currency-dolphin-teeth-feel-recessions-bite.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Apr 2008 11:50:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/18819/japanese-dolphin-cuisine-cruelty-or-culture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne activist calls the Japanese city of Taiji "ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth," but locals want him and his cohorts to mind their own business. Residents of Taiji have been eating dolphin meat for hundreds of years and say they have as much right...http://www.newser.com/story/18819/japanese-dolphin-cuisine-cruelty-or-culture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 12 Feb 2008 10:35:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/9071/seals-to-get-swimming-gizmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNavy SEALs will be swimming to their targets up to 150% faster when they get a new Pentagon gizmo called a PowerSwim. It looks like a mini-glider that attaches to a diver's legs, Popular Mechanics reports. SEALs reportedly take about 2 hours to master it; they have to learn a...http://www.newser.com/story/9071/seals-to-get-swimming-gizmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Oct 2007 18:08:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/6646/feared-extinct-dolphin-resurfaces.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA member of a dolphin species so rare that it was reported possibly extinct may have been spotted in the Yangtze River. The baiji, or white flag dolphin, was declared extinct last December, but earlier this month a man shot a video showing what appears to be a baiji frolicking...http://www.newser.com/story/6646/feared-extinct-dolphin-resurfaces.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Aug 2007 15:11:17 CDT