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A girl calls to her mom as she stands near a dead whale on the shore Monday morning, April 25, 2016, on the cobblestone beach at Lower Trestles on San Onofre State Beach, just south of San Clemente, Calif. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGAZINES OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT LA TIMES OUT, MAGS OUT.

Whale on California beach will be cut up, sent to landfill

A girl calls to her mom as she stands near a dead whale on the shore Monday morning, April 25, 2016, on the cobblestone beach at Lower Trestles on San Onofre State Beach, just south of San Clemente, Calif. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGAZINES OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT LA TIMES OUT, MAGS OUT.

April 28, 2016, 9:43am Life

Authorities say the rotting carcass of a 30-ton gray whale that washed up on a California beach will be cut up and trucked to a landfill. Read story

Relics of Chernobyl&#039;s past - hollowed-out hotels and houses, empty swimming pools, crumbling farming villages and oxidized ferris wheels - stand in ghostly abandonment across a contaminated region larger than Rhode Island. MUST CREDIT: James Beasley.

Wildlife now abundant in Chernobyl zone

Relics of Chernobyl&#039;s past - hollowed-out hotels and houses, empty swimming pools, crumbling farming villages and oxidized ferris wheels - stand in ghostly abandonment across a contaminated region larger than Rhode Island. MUST CREDIT: James Beasley.

April 28, 2016, 5:59am Life

Exactly three decades ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine sent a radioactive cloud across Europe. Within weeks, nearly 100,000 people who lived in a large zone surrounding the disaster site had been evacuated, never to return to the poisoned land. Read story

Veterinary student Amanda Kuhl scratches Bear&#039;s nose Wednesday outside the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital Small Animal Clinic in Urbana, Ill.

Dog found shot, tied to Illinois bridge healing

Veterinary student Amanda Kuhl scratches Bear&#039;s nose Wednesday outside the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital Small Animal Clinic in Urbana, Ill.

April 27, 2016, 6:37pm Life

A Labrador mix dog that had been shot and tied to an Illinois bridge with his mouth taped closed so he wouldn't bark was starting to show signs of recovery from a long list of injuries, a veterinarian said Wednesday. Read story

A &quot;primadome&quot; for chimps at an unspecified location.

Report looks at medical research chimps

A &quot;primadome&quot; for chimps at an unspecified location.

April 22, 2016, 6:02am Life

The National Institutes of Health announced three years ago that hundreds of chimpanzees it held for medical research would be retired to a Louisiana sanctuary. Last year, it said that a last remaining colony of 50 chimps would also spend its final years in the sanctuary. Read story

This artists&#039; rendering shows a titanosaur and a hatchling titanosaur in relation to a human. Tiny titanosaur babies weighed about as much as average human babies, 6 to 8 pounds. (K. curry rogers, m. whitney, M. d&#039;emic, B.

Baby dinosaur fossils reveal rapid growth of gigantic creatures

This artists&#039; rendering shows a titanosaur and a hatchling titanosaur in relation to a human. Tiny titanosaur babies weighed about as much as average human babies, 6 to 8 pounds. (K. curry rogers, m. whitney, M. d&#039;emic, B.

April 22, 2016, 6:01am Life

WASHINGTON -- Think your kids grow fast? Scientists say one dinosaur baby went from tiny to a true titan in the blink of a prehistoric eye. Read story

Packy receives cake for his 54th birthday in April. Packy, who lives at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, is the oldest male Asian elephant in North America.

Zoos provide special care to aging animals

Packy receives cake for his 54th birthday in April. Packy, who lives at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, is the oldest male Asian elephant in North America.

April 22, 2016, 5:28am Life

Selkie the gray seal rips a silvery hunk of butterfish in half, gulps it down and looks to her keeper for more. Allie Killam, who cares for Selkie and other animals on the American Trail exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, drops a slippery squid into the seal's open mouth. Read story

Want to learn more about beekeeping? Join a local beekeeping club or attend one of their monthly meetings.

Two experts share the ABCs of successful beekeeping

Want to learn more about beekeeping? Join a local beekeeping club or attend one of their monthly meetings.

April 22, 2016, 5:28am Life

Beekeeping was so much simpler in 1980 when John Strickland started. Read story

Cheezburger’s new owner is Israeli digital-media company

April 21, 2016, 4:38pm Business

Cheezburger has revealed the parent company that purchased it in February, and the acquisition means it will be working with fellow online humor site eBaum's World. Read story

A ring-tailed lemur and her baby sit on a tree branch at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx borough of New York. The zoo is showing off three baby lemurs. Two are ring-tailed and one is a brown collared lemur.

3 baby lemurs to debut at the Bronx Zoo

A ring-tailed lemur and her baby sit on a tree branch at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx borough of New York. The zoo is showing off three baby lemurs. Two are ring-tailed and one is a brown collared lemur.

April 21, 2016, 9:54am Life

Three baby lemurs are making their debut at the Bronx Zoo. Read story

FILE -- In this file photo taken Jan. 18, 2014, a satellite-linked transmitter is visible on the dorsal fin of L87, an orca from the southern resident group of killer whales, while swimming in Puget Sound west of Seattle. Federal biologists have temporarily halted the satellite tagging program after another endangered Puget Sound orca was found dead, with pieces of a dart tag lodged in its fin. Canada&#039;s Department of Fisheries and Ocean says the initial exam of the 20-year-old whale found off Vancouver Island last month found no clear cause of death.

Orca tagging stops after pieces found in dead whale

FILE -- In this file photo taken Jan. 18, 2014, a satellite-linked transmitter is visible on the dorsal fin of L87, an orca from the southern resident group of killer whales, while swimming in Puget Sound west of Seattle. Federal biologists have temporarily halted the satellite tagging program after another endangered Puget Sound orca was found dead, with pieces of a dart tag lodged in its fin. Canada&#039;s Department of Fisheries and Ocean says the initial exam of the 20-year-old whale found off Vancouver Island last month found no clear cause of death.

April 20, 2016, 9:22pm Life

SEATTLE -- Federal biologists have temporarily stopped tagging endangered killer whales in Washington state's Puget Sound after a dead orca was found with pieces of a dart tag lodged in its dorsal fin. Read story