Jane Stevens at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - Faster than a speeding squid, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's young white shark blasted south when he was released on Feb. 5. In just 44 days, he "made it safely past fishing grounds on the Pacific coast of California and the Baja Peninsula, rounded Cabo San Lucas and is heading toward the Mexican mainland," according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Jane Stevens in Santa Cruz, CA. -- Some bad news came this weekend: the numbers of loggerhead turtles are dropping. They were increasing during the 1990s, but the five-year review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service showed a turn-around.