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Wallace Lake is a freshwater lake in Caddo Parish, in northwestern Louisiana, United States. The lake is much wider than it is tall. However, the actual area of the lake varies drastically annually. It can be from 3,000 to 9,000 acres (1,200 to 3,600 ha). [1] The lake has a dam that runs water out to form Wallace Bayou, which combines with ...
Beluga whale coronavirus SW1 (Whale-CoV SW1) is a mammalian Gammacoronavirus, an RNA virus, discovered through genome sequencing in the liver of a single deceased beluga whale and first described in 2008. This was the first description of the complete genome of a coronavirus found in a marine mammal. [1]
A North Atlantic right whale has been spotted entangled in rope off New England, worsening an already devastating year for the vanishing animals, federal authorities said. The right whales number ...
Lake St. Catherine (French: Lac Sainte-Catherine) is a brackish-water lake that is located in eastern Orleans Parish, within the city limits of New Orleans, between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in Louisiana. [1] [2] Between Lake St. Catherine and Lake Borgne was the original Town of Lake Catherine. Established between Unknown Pass and ...
SPRING LAKE - A dead beaked whale was discovered early Thursday morning in Spring Lake at the beach near St. Clair Avenue, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center of Brigantine.. Marine ...
Many of the baldcypress trees are estimated to be 500 to 1,000 years old. The National Champion baldcypress, which is the largest tree of any species east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, is found in the refuge about 4.8 miles (7.7 km) from the entrance gate. The tree has a buttressed trunk that splits into two canopies, and the buttresses ...
Waterfowl are abundant during the winter. Peak waterfowl populations of 75,000 ducks have been recorded. In 1979, the Duck Lake Impoundment was created to provide 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) of waterfowl habitat. Management of the impoundment is to manipulate water levels to promote the growth of aquatic and moist soil vegetation.
An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in ...