Marine Animals

Morning Rundown

Zell Bites, DeGroot Writes

Lobsters Walking!

Are Slow Boats Bigger Threat for Grazing Sea Cows?

Guess what, boaters? A researcher at Florida Atlantic University says that motoring slowly through designated manatee protection habitats may put the meandering sea cows at greater risk of getting hacked up by your boat's motor. Says Dr. Edmund Gerstein, the univer ... More >>

Best Place To Learn About Nature/Palm Beach

Gumbo Limbo Nature Center

Best Pet Store

Pet World

Letters to the Editor

Letters for April 20, 2000

Best Fishing

Lake Worth Pier

Best Boating

Hillsboro Inlet

Best Place to Snorkel

Fort Lauderdale

Best Toy Store

The Explore Store Museum of Discovery and Science Museum of Discovery and Science Museum of Discovery and Science

Best Snorkeling Spot

North End of Palm Beach

Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

Marinelife Center of Juno Beach

Doggone

Marinelife Center of Juno Beach

Feelin' the Freak

That Redline Frame of Mind 

While We're Talking Cajun...

Speaking of Nawlins-style grub, Rosey Baby is offering a special through Friday night on their famous garlic blue crabs and crawfish boil. While the little buggers last, if you purchase a dozen Cajun-boiled blue crabs or garlic crabs, the Babe will throw in a pound of fresh-daily Cajun-boiled crawd ... More >>

Letters for July 3-9, 2008

Speaking of Nawlins-style grub, Rosey Baby is offering a special through Friday night on their famous garlic blue crabs and crawfish boil. While the little buggers last, if you purchase a dozen Cajun-boiled blue crabs or garlic crabs, the Babe will throw in a pound of fresh-daily Cajun-boiled crawd ... More >>

Shark Huggers

Tourists can't wait to get next to them – even if they are eating machines

Fin be Gone

Local entrepreneurs say they've perfected a sunblock with a twist: It repels sharks

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Local entrepreneurs say they've perfected a sunblock with a twist: It repels sharks

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

Sharkwater

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

White Whale

WWI (Merge)

Reef Madness

Thanks to the Delray-Boynton pipe, there's a nitrate-stoked party down there.

Shark Bites

JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory.

Miracle on Ice

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

I Heart PvD Too

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

How A-boat It?

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Floundering

Cruel, vapid, and unfunny, this Shark bites

Let Them Eat Clams

Artist Wyland sees the big picture

Shark Bait

Open Water delivers more flaws than jaws

27 Holes on the Fourth

Open Water delivers more flaws than jaws

Adam 'n' Heave

50 First Dates is a patchy toss-off strictly for Sandler fans

Diving for Dreams

Painter William Bock uses his skill as a scuba diver to dredge the deep for striking images

No Fish Story

How a TV station promised a big one but delivered nada

Frigid Photography

Antarctica comes to the Palm Beach Photographic Centre

Turtle Tryst

Save the baby sea turtles!

Armed and Dangerous

"Monsters of the Deep" features squids and sharks and dinosaurs -- oh, my!

Troubled Waters

Big wave-riding among the sharks of New Smyrna Beach -- the calm before NYC's storm

A Fishy Bit of Environmentalism

Local fishermen say a proposed ban on fishing around Broward's coral reefs is a ploy by diving promoters to build business

Flipped Out Over Flipper

Dolphin activist RussRector will do just about anything to make swim-with-dolphins programs extinct

Flipped Out Over Flipper

Dolphin activist Russ Rector will do just about anything to make swim-with-dolphins programs extinct

LandShark: Oh God It's Real

Sun-Sentinel Ted Hutton at the Sun-Sentinel shot this photo after a Marlins game -- it's the new LandShark Stadium logo on the big board. I've decided that I'll never embrace this thing. Sharks and dolphins fucking hate each other, okay? What maniac would ever put Jaws and Flipper in the sam ... More >>

Free Willy. Seriously.

The Cove expertly exposes the horrific treatment of dolphins, but what about the uglies?

Is Lake Worth Mayoral Candidate a Dolphin Trafficker?

Protestors at last night's forum ​It's not unusual for politicians to want to hide controversial details of their lives: adulterous affairs, DUI arrests, bankruptcies.  Leave to the reliably kooky city of Lake Worth to have this week's most interesting political scandal: rivals of mayoral can ... More >>

Lake Worth Mayoral Candidate Rene Varela Responds to Dolphin Trafficking Allegations

Dr. Rene Varela ​Two days ago, we posted this story about how protesters in Lake Worth targeted mayoral candidate Rene Varela, shining light on his work with Ocean Embassy, an Orlando company (formed by ex-SeaWorld employees) that has plans to build a resort in Panama featuring marine animal attr ... More >>

Two-time Sea Turtle Poacher Bruce Bivins Sentenced

Photo by Flickr user anej1030​For some old-timers in Riviera Beach, the start of any date out with your woman begins with sea turtle eggs. You poach them, sprinkle salt on their papery skin, and then eat the aphrodisiacs in one bite. Back when I first wrote about that nasty habit back in 2002, cop ... More >>