Oceanariums Tuesday April 23, 1996 at approximately 8 a.m. Florida's Homosassa Springs Park was the sight of a joyous event. Sweet Pea, a wayward manatee rescued more than 900 miles from her home, was ready to be introduced to the wild. The 1,450 pound manatee was spotted near a municipal was...

Scott O'Dell "Places I have known, creatures I have loved are in Island of the Blue Dolphins..." --Scott O'Dell, "Newberry Award Acceptance" Speech, Horn Book, August, 1961 Scott O'Dell, an award winning author of more than twenty books, was a natu...

There are people who won't even step foot in the ocean for fear of being eaten alive by a shark. But who would disagree. A shark is the perfect destroying machine. It's enormous in size and it's razor sharp teeth make it one of the most feared creatures by man. But are sharks really ...