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White House Gave Hollywood Filmmaker Access To Team That Killed Bin Laden, Records Show

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials made "a planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team Six" who killed Osama bin Laden available to a Holly...

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WATCH: Discovering Seal Sounds In The Antarctic

Lindblad Expeditions | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Antarctica Cruise, Seal Sounds, National Geographic Explorer, Antarctica, Antarctic Scuba, Travel to Antarctica, Seals, Antarctic Cruises, Scuba, Undersea, Cold Water Diving, Antarctic Travel, Antarctic Seals, Video, Travel News

When a big, fast-moving shadow whipped by me about 50 feet down the rocky slope of Booth Island, it brought me up short right away.

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Wildlife Rehab Success Story: A Seal Pup Comes Home

Brenda Peterson | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Marine Mammals, Volunteering, Green News, Seals, Seal Sitters, Conservation, Animals, Wildlife, Green News

It was late last summer when a very thin and sick seal pup struggled onshore in West Seattle, Washington.

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Sunday With the Sea Lions

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: New-England-Aquarium, Biology, Sea Lions, Aquarium, Boston, Seals, Science, Oceans, Animals, Marine Biology, Coral Reefs, Ocean, College News

Every now and then, they would roll over to scratch an itch, and then return to lying there serenely with their eyes closed. Those sea lions, I thought, had the right idea about how to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.

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Will SEALs Launch a New Wave of Exploitation Flicks?

Ward Carroll | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Department of Defense, Act of Valor, Seals, Act of Valor Film, Act of Valor Movie, Navy Seals, Act of Valor Review, Entertainment News

The overall message of AOV is that the military doesn't chew innocents up and spit them out; it allows patriots to become their best selves. You wanna be a real life ninja? Join the Navy. Critics say, "Shallow;" fans say, "Real... finally."

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Aggressive Hawaiian Monk Seal Sent To Aquarium To Save Species

AP | AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 04.16.2012

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HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered marine mammal in the United States, has a long list of threats — fishing nets, sharks ...

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PHOTOS: Hunting Seals In Greenland

Bruce Parry | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Slidewide, Hunting, Greenland, Seals, Arctic Travel, Travel Blogs, Arctic, Travel News

Rasmus has run out of walrus meat so the dogs will have to make do with dry biscuits. Unless we get some meat we're all going to go hungry, that's the way of it out here.

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PHOTO: Arctic Animal Visits Seattle

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Ribbon Seal Encounter, Video, Arctic Seal, Duwamish River Seal, Ribbon Seal, Seals, Duwamish River, Arctic Animals, Seattle, Animals, Arctic Seal Seattle, Green News

By OurAmazingPlanet's Andrea Mustain: A Seattle resident recently got a big surprise when she discovered a strange-looking furry visitor on her pro...

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PHOTOS: Dutch Nursery Cares For Wave Of Orphaned Seal Pups

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Baby Seal Rescue, Orphaned Animals, Video, Seal Rehabilitation and Research Center Netherlands, Netherlands, Seals, Seal Rehabilitation and Research Center, Orphaned Seals, Baby Animals, Animals, Seal Rehabilitation, Netherlands Storms, Ap, Green News

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Storms that have lashed the Dutch coast this year have created a wave of orphaned baby seals — some so young their umbilical cord...

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PHOTOS: Baby Seal Breaks Into Home, Snoozes On Couch

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Baby Seal, Video, Cute Baby Animals, Baby Seal on Couch, Seal on Couch, Seals, Seal in Home, Urlesque, Baby Animals, Animals, Baby Seals, Seal Pups, Green News

New Zealander Annette Swoffer got the surprise of her life when she found a baby seal in her kitchen, who later began to snooze on her couch, the New ...

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WATCH: Louisiana Corn Maze Thanks Seal Team 6

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Halloween, Video, Louisiana, Louisiana Travel, US Destinations, Navy Seals, SEAL Team 6, Seals, Holiday Travel, Travel News

A Louisiana man has used a corn field to write a very large thank you note to Seal Team 6, the elite unit that stormed Osama Bin Laden's compound in P...

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Apology in the Middle East Is a Weapon, or 'Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word'

Haggai Carmon | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Syria, Flotila, Iran, Turkey, Marmara, Diplomatic, Middle East, Israel, Political, Apology, Un, U.S, Palmer Report, Eu, Seals, Kurds, World News

In the Middle East where honor is worth more than money and is a political weapon both sides hold, the Israeli-Turkish future relationship seem bleak.

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6 Deadly, But Adorable Animals

www.cracked.com | David Moye | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Roadrunners, Weird Animals, Animals in the News, Olive Baboons, Seals, Cape Buffalos, Otters, Weasels, Weird News News

Mother Nature's favorite gag is giving vicious predators the bodies of harmless fuzzballs. Here are some animals that are adorable and deadly....

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White House Photo Of Dead Troops Ceremony Sparks Protest

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Doug Wilson, White House, Troops, Afghanistan, Remains, News Media, Obama, Taliban, American Troops, Chopper Crash, Osama Bin Laden, Dover Air Force Base, Pete Souza, Navy Seals, SEAL Team 6, Seals, Ap, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony Tuesday for the return of the remains of ...

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WATCH: Snoring Seal Is Adorable, Just Wants To Be Loved

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Seals, Funny Animal Videos, Urlesque, Video, Funny Animals, Funny Videos, Comedy News

This little, er... big guy is an elephant seal, and he's tuckered himself out. See the funny shape of his nose? During mating season it's really helpf...

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Are You Blue? Ten Things You Can Do to Help Heal Our Oceans

Brenda Peterson | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Whales and Dolphins, Marine Life, Climate Change, Seals, Conservation, Oceans, Green Living, Global Warming, Green News

If we take the long view of geology, natural selection may simply disappear our self-destructive, short-sighted species. And the seas will recover, with or without us.

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WATCH: Seals Kiss After Being Freed

Posted 08.13.2011

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Last Saturday, June 11, two Northern Elephant Seal pups were released in Laguna Beach, California after being rehabbed at the Pacific Marine Mammal Ce...

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Pentagon To Bin Laden Raid Leakers: Shut Up

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 07.18.2011

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Gossip and unauthorized leaks from U.S. officials, politicians and retired military officers about the highly classified raid to kill Osama bin Laden ...

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Seal Six

Gary Hart | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Abbottabad, Iraq War, Pakistan, War, Seals, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

In the arena of global conflict, there is good news and bad news. The good news is reflected in the sensational success of the Seals in Pakistan. The bad news is there will be a lot more actions like this, and they will not always be so successful.

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A U.S. Break With Pakistan? Forget About It

Sandy Goodman | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Abbottabad, Nuclear War, Military Cantonment, Sen. John Kerry, Islamic Bomb, Isi, Pakistan, Pres. Asif Ali Zardari, Bin Laden, India, Seals, Congress, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, U.S. Aid, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Osama Bin Laden Death, Osama Bin Laden, World News

As long as this country is heavily involved in Afghanistan, it cannot seriously threaten, much less break, its alliance with the Pakistanis, whatever their sins.

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"Seals of Approval"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Breakfast, Stamford Advocate, Naturalist, Montauk, College, Humor, Sea Lions, Seals, San Francisco, Canada, Whales, Long Island, Stamford, Ocean, Westhampton, Comedy News

Unlike a lot of seals, who have managed to gain steady employment in circuses and aquariums, I have never tried to balance a beach ball on my nose. C...

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PHOTOS: 9 Places To Spot California Sea Lions And Seals

| Posted 05.25.2011

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By Megan Cytron With a population of 238,000, there are enough California sea lions to populate a slippery city the size of Scottsdale, Arizona. Cali...

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Police Escort Lost Sea Lion Off Highway

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animals, Cute Animal Stories, Sea Lions, Seals, Sealion, Sea Lion Oregon 101, Sea Lion Escort, Sea Lion 101, Sea Lion Highway 101, Sea Lion Police, Sea Lion Highway, Green News

YACHATS, Ore. — A wayward sea lion trying to scoot down a highway along the Oregon coast got an escort from state troopers. The Oregon State Po...

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Protected Seals Found Decapitated In Northern Ireland

Yahoo! News UK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Northern Ireland, Aquatic Life, Grey Seals Beheaded, Protected Seals, Beheaded Seals, Grey Seal, Seals, Grey Seal Pups, Marine Life, World News

Protected seals in Northern Ireland were decapitated and possibly shot, it has been revealed. A total of 12 animals discovered on the shores of Co Dow...

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Beach Etiquette: Mingling With Marine Mammals in Malibu

Neil Zevnik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seals, Environment, Conservation, Marine Mammals, Sea Lions, Wildlife, Nature, Los Angeles News

You realize you are face to face with a marine critter of some sort. So what do you do? Take this quiz:

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