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One of the rarest fish on the planet is dying in the Keys. Scientists are struggling to find out whySawfish, and about 30 other species of fish, are turning up sick and dying in the Lower Keys as questions mount over what's causing it. As word and worries spread, scientists are yet to find a smoking gun.
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The Miami Seaquarium has been an attraction in the city for almost 70 years. But in recent months the 38-acre marine park on Virginia Key in Key Biscayne has come under intense scrutiny for substandard animal care and a lack of certification.
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After Mexico's Supreme Court lifted a suspension, the expected return of the controversial sport is agitating animal rights activists who say bullfighting is a form of animal cruelty.
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In his decades-long career, Ron Magill has learned a lot from the animal world, and now he's putting some of those lessons onto paper. The Pride of a Lion is about K’wasi, ZooMiami's first male lion cub and how we can learn from his tale of survival.
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Lolita died Aug. 18, and activists say their fight is far from over. They plan to continue fighting for the release of other orcas in captivity and other sea mammals, such as bottlenose dolphins.
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Wildlife officials say a two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on which they depend.
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The sea turtle nesting season that started just months after Ian hit ended up setting records for loggerhead turtles on Sanibel and Captiva island.
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A decade after swimming nonstop for more than two straight days from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad returned to the Key West beach where she completed her epic journey, helping return a rehabilitated sea turtle to the Atlantic.
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People living on Sanibel and Captiva weren’t the only ones driven from their homes by Hurricane Ian’s churning storm surge. Wildlife, amphibians and birds were displaced. Some species have come back fine, others are struggling to survive while others yet remain missing-in-action.
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A new Florida law will remove dog breed, weight and size restrictions in Miami-Dade County and all public housing authorities in the state on Oct. 1.
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A rare hawksbill sea turtle found injured earlier this month by divers on a shipwreck off Key Largo, was fitted with a satellite tracking tag and returned to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary after it was treated at the Keys-based Turtle Hospital.
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Cockfighting has been illegal in Florida since 1986 but it still goes on — the Monroe County sheriff's office just made an arrest on cockfighting charges in the Florida Keys.