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The largest female whale shark at Georgia Aquarium has died, the Atlanta attraction announced. The massive shark named Trixie died on Friday after “having difficulty navigating the habitat ...
ATLANTA — Georgia Aquarium's longest-tenured whale shark is dead after 15 years at the facility. A statement in a Monday Facebook post form the Georgia Aquarium said Alice the female whale shark ...
Vikas Chinnan stood over a tank at the world’s largest aquarium, peering down at the world’s largest fish species. He was wondering what it would be like to jump in and frolic beside the whale ...
ATLANTA – Georgia Aquarium officials say it may be months before they know what caused Wednesday's death of another whale shark, the second this year at the only facility outside Asia that ...
ATLANTA — Losing one whale shark may have seemed a misfortune. But when another of the rare fish at the Georgia Aquarium died Wednesday, there was talk of carelessness: It was, in short ...
“My experience swimming with the whale sharks at Georgia Aquarium was so profound,” she says. “I’ve gotten my hands on wolves, bears, and elephants … but this experience made me break ...
“To this day we haven’t seen successful copulation, but it is proof (whale sharks) are in our waters trying out these behaviors.” Cameron Perry, a research scientist at the Georgia Aquarium ...
Another whale shark died Wednesday at the Georgia Aquarium, the second this year at the only facility outside Asia to display the huge, rare fish. Aquarium officials said identifying the cause of ...
ATLANTA, June 13 -- For the second time in less than six months, a whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium, the only facility outside Asia to display the rare fish, has died. The whale shark ...
The Georgia Aquarium’s largest female whale shark died Friday. The massive mammal, named Trixie, was one of the first whale sharks that arrived at the Atlanta facility in 2006, the aquarium ...