A New York Police Department helicopter patrol, out on a routine run from its base at Floyd Bennett Field on Memorial Day discovered four men near the shore, tossing live creatures into two flat-bottom skiffs.
One theory is that their spectacular hearing allows them to follow the coastline by sounds of waves on the shore, or of creatures hanging out in the kelp beds.
The sea off the peninsula is freezing less so more icebergs are battering the shores, smashing the creatures that live there.
Some answers are obvious, because residents and advocates of the area and these animals are not about to surrender these creatures or shores to what amounts to a preventable accident.
The lounge chairs are stacked up, the seaside restaurants are closed, and the only creatures along the shore are the sea gulls.
Although it's possible to catch a glimpse of these magnificent creatures from the shore, a boat trip is the best way to get close to the action and see wild whales in their natural habitat, frolicking in the waves, chasing the boat, or just chillin' on the surface, effortlessly blowing water metres into the air.
Mills's watchful, ambiguous presence triggers not just a spate of murders but the washing up on the shore of a terrifying mutant creature.
Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues, a dinosaur paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, said the fossil discovery was "of great interest" because of what it tells about the near-shore environment in which the creatures lived and because previous sites in North Africa have yielded only isolated bones and teeth.
As Mark Kurlansky details in his fine book "The Big Oyster," during their first 300 years on these shores colonists nearly ate the wild creatures out of existence.
According to CBS 5, attempts to save squid by placing them back in the water were futile -- the creatures swam right back onto shore.
