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No Quick Answer in Whale Shark Death

Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:04:08 PM
By DANIEL YEE

In this undated photo released by the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Norton, one of the original whale sharks on exhibit at the aquarium is shown. Officials at the aquarium reported that Norton died early Wednesday, June 13, 2007, and is the second whale shark to die at the facility in five months. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Georgia Aquarium)  ATLANTA (AP) - Early results from a necropsy performed on a whale shark that died at the Georgia Aquarium this week produced no conclusive findings on the cause of death, aquarium officials said late Thursday.

Norton on Wednesday became the second whale shark — the world's largest fish — to die at the aquarium since January.

In January, Ralph, a whale shark who along with Norton was one of the aquarium's first stars when it opened in 2005, died from peritonitis, an infection in his abdomen.


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