http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 4:10:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42199/ocean-census-surprises-scientists.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSomewhere under the Antarctic Ocean, brittle starfish completely cover a submerged mountain. In the Pacific, sharks congregate in a region with few food sources but plenty of opportunity for romance. Those facts, along with an accounting of more than 5,000 newly discovered species, are part of the results of the global effort to create a Census of Marine Life, USA Today reports.http://www.newser.com/story/42199/ocean-census-surprises-scientists.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 10 Nov 2008 8:16:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40878/puget-sounds-orcas-in-trouble.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe orca population in Washington’s Puget Sound is dropping, and scientists think a scarce food supply is to blame, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. A poor year for chinook salmon—and another is in the forecast—forced the killer whales to spend energy searching further afield for food. Two mature females (the least likely orcas to die) and five others were lost this year, the biggest yearly decline since the 1990s.http://www.newser.com/story/40878/puget-sounds-orcas-in-trouble.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 25 Oct 2008 10:02:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39606/scientists-confirm-sharks-virgin-birth.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA blacktip shark at a Virginia aquarium got pregnant despite not having been around a male of her kind for a decade, the Virginian-Pilot reports. Scientists have long suspected that sharks, like some smaller vertebrates, could reproduce asexually but this is only the second confirmed case. Tests showed the baby shark had genetic material purely from its mother.http://www.newser.com/story/39606/scientists-confirm-sharks-virgin-birth.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 10 Oct 2008 2:32:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39589/helps-on-way-for-cape-cod-manatee.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA 1,000-pound manatee, with one eye and an injured flipper, has been stranded for four days off the sleepy Cape Cod harbor town of Dennis, and its chances of returning to warmer waters without help appear slim, reports the Cape Cod Times . The US Fish and Wildlife Service will try to rescue the manatee, dubbed Dennis, this weekend.http://www.newser.com/story/39589/helps-on-way-for-cape-cod-manatee.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 10 Oct 2008 0:15:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37489/noisy-humans-drowning-out-marine-mammals.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWhales and dolphins are seriously suffering from the noise that human industry and militaries release into the ocean, an animal-welfare group warns—and we need to turn the volume down before we do irreversible damage. Sonar is implicated for mass stranding and deaths of whales and dolphins, the BBC reports, and ocean noise is doubling each decade in some areas.http://www.newser.com/story/37489/noisy-humans-drowning-out-marine-mammals.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 15 Sep 2008 11:06:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37001/bucki-the-whale-escapes-baltic-for-open-ocean.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBucki's going home, a little thinner but seemingly none the worse for wear. The humpback whale, which strayed into the Baltic Sea in July, has finally made his way back into the Atlantic Ocean, Der Spiegel reports. The whale is only the third in modern history spotted in German waters and the first known to have gotten back to the open ocean. Watchers were worried that the whale wasn't getting enough food on its impromptu tour.http://www.newser.com/story/37001/bucki-the-whale-escapes-baltic-for-open-ocean.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 09 Sep 2008 14:42:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34473/a-shark-hater-fesses-up.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSharks were once eminently despicable creatures. Remember Jaws ? Now, though, perceptions have shifted—they’re seen as endangered, misunderstood animals who chomp humans only when they mistake them for seals. (That's why they take one bite and "sheepishly" move on.) It's a source of great disappointment to Joe Queenan, who laments in the Los Angeles Times that he just can't find an acceptable replacement for his hatred.http://www.newser.com/story/34473/a-shark-hater-fesses-up.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 08 Aug 2008 8:34:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33809/fish-found-at-record-depth.html?refid=rss_all_defaultScientists have captured a live fish from a record 7,500 feet under the Atlantic Ocean, the BBC reports. A new device allows recovery of live creatures from much farther down than was previously possible. The expedition to learn more about life around hydrothermal vents deep beneath the ocean also brought back three species of deep-sea shrimp.http://www.newser.com/story/33809/fish-found-at-record-depth.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 31 Jul 2008 5:51:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32188/jaws-visits-town-that-made-him-famous.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFears of a real-live great white shark gripped the island site of the film Jaws yesterday, closing two beaches amid unconfirmed reports of a sighting, the AP reports. A plane searched the waters around Martha’s Vineyard off Massachusetts but found no sign of such a beast. Great whites are rare but not unknown in New England, where Steven Spielberg filmed the 1974 movie.http://www.newser.com/story/32188/jaws-visits-town-that-made-him-famous.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 11 Jul 2008 7:10:06 CDT