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1 Is That Mr. Splashy Pants?
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2 To the Rescue: Choosing a Whale Watching Tour
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3 The Scoop: Hayden Wants to Save the Whales Again!
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4 Hayden Made It to Obama After All!
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5 Creature Features: Animals in Antarctica
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7 Creature Features: Beluga Whales
It may not quite be Summer yet, but whales are one nautical theme that's already taking the world of kiddie gear by storm! From the bathtub to the bedroom, there are plenty of fun ways to incorporate whales into your kids' decor, wardrobes, and more. Thar she blows! Read more
Whales, the gentle giants of the sea, are an au courant decorating motif, but these sweet sea creatures weren't always used in a benign manner when it came to home decorating. Starting in the mid-1700s, whalers would use whale bones, teeth, and baleen to create scrimshaw — engraved pictures and lettering etched into these animal parts. Thankfully, scrimshaw is in no danger of becoming trendy Read more
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea, swimming right into the nursery! The beloved marine mammals have a presence under the sea and in lil one's lairs with their beautiful tails and spouting blowholes. The creatures are a welcome addition to wee ones' nurseries and seem to be popping up everywhere. Check out these marine-inspired items. Read more
Whales, the true tale of gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle, is assembling somewhat of a dream cast, for me anyway. Drew Barrymore was the first to sign on as a Greenpeace activist, then John Krasinksi snagged a role as a small-town reporter, and now another one of my faves is joining the film: Kristen Bell! She's in negotiations to star as an LA reporter who wants to make it Read more
Hot off winning a Golden Globe for HBO's Grey Gardens, Drew Barrymore is going back to the big screen. The actress is eying the role of a Greenpeace activist for Everybody Loves Whales, a Universal film following real-life events in 1988 when a group of whales got trapped under ice in the Arctic Circle. But this isn't just an environmental film — the incident also took a political turn, Read more
Fox will still air an episode of Mental guest-starring David Carradine despite the actor's death this week. — Washington Post Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan. and Chris Cooper are set to star alongside Robert Pattinson in Remember Me. — Variety Screen Gems has set Lisa Kudrow, Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley and several others to join Emma Stone and Amanda Bynes in the comedy Read more
We all know that Hayden Panettiere wants to save the whales, but she's not the only one! Founded in 1977, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been protecting the seas at the bottom of the Earth against Japanese whalers, and over the Winter season of 2007 to 2008, Animal Planet tagged along to document their journey. Get Flash to see this player. var so2471198 = new Read more
I just couldn't get that song out of my head so I dove right into a bunch of wild whale facts! Do you know anything about those baby Belugas (and adult ones too)? Test yourself when you take my quiz! Source Take the Quiz Read more
Sing it with me: Baaaa-by Be-luuuuga. Am the only one getting flashbacks to childhood whenever I see pictures of Beluga Whales? Anyway, the endangered mammals are best recognized by their distinctive white color and large foreheads (forget "fivehead" . . . more like twenty-fivehead). Prominent noggins or not, they are pretty cute . . . especially when blowing bubbles. Check it out in the video Read more
When I heard that a chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, I couldn't help but wonder about the animals. I know many creatures call this region home . . . but what do you know about them? Source Take the Quiz Read more
