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New on Weird & Wild: Whale Shark Rescue

Photo by Shiyam ElkCloner, distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Men in Indonesia’s Karimunjawa National Park were fishing for anchovies and small bait fish on October 8, but they caught more than they bargained for when they discovered a juvenile whale shark tangled in their net, reports the World Conservation Society.Read about how the young whale shark was rescued: Text Message Saves Trapped Whale Shark.