The World Aquarium, a nonprofit facility, has passed a re-inspection as of Friday and will remain open. This good news comes after the Aquarium was cited with a plethora of rather egregious violations last month that one would not equate with standard of care expected...
After two and half years of waiting, the renovated Toledo Aquarium will be opening on March 27, 2015. Â Nearly 26 million dollars was spent in the process. When the aquarium was closed for renovations, it held a respectable 46,000 gallons. Today it holds a whopping...
The vast majority of public aquariums and zoos care about their animals above all else. However, this appears not to be the case with the World Aquarium in St. Louis, Missouri.The Aquarium was cited with numerous health inspector violations last month, by the U.S....
The Tennessee Aquarium has unveiled some new technology, the first of its kind in U.S. aquariums. There are microscopic wire-coded tags called Beacons which are implanted in Aquarium-reared Southern Appalachian Brook Trout and sonic tags that show the locations of...
Yawkey, a 475- lb Leatherback Sea Turtle, was released back into the Atlantic Ocean, off the South Carolina Coast Thursday. Leatherbacks are critically endangered species. The turtle was found the week prior, stranded on the beach, and brought to the South Carolina...
Nobuaki Okamoto, also known as 'Dr. Goldfish', has written a book on how to enjoy keeping goldfish in bowls. The book aims to bring goldfish into closer contact with their owners and advocates for the use of fish bowls instead of fish tanks. Okamoto states:“What has...
The Natural History Museum in London, England will be offering a new virtual dive exhibit called 'Coral Reefs: Secret Cities of the Seas' for guests starting March 27th, 2015. The exhibit uses over 200 exhibits from the Catlin Seaview Survey. The reefs featured...
A sad update on yesterdays post. Spanish dolphin trainer,Jose Luis Barbero, 59 years old, was found inside his vehicle at the parking lot of the Palma De Mallorca airport. The authorities are treating it as a suicide. Recently Barbero was linked to videos and social...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_fhYvDAsI&w=560&h=315] Jose Luis Barbero, a Spanish dolphin trainer with 35 years in the industry, who was due to go to work at the Georgia Aquarium,is now missing. Barbero worked on the resort island of Mallorca and...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yez5IwQbTQs&w=560&h=315] Our favorite Houdini of the ocean has just made another high profile daring escape at the Seattle Aquarium. And I think its fair to say that those visitors at the Seattle Aquarium that day were...