aquarium's

"We have received scattered reports of manatee sightings over the past three weeks, but … no photographic evidence exists," Jennifer Dittmar, stranding coordinator for the aquarium's marine animal rescue program, said in a statement.

Manatee spotted near Baltimore's harbor Washington Post editors 2010

Our tour, with Jon Forrest Dohlin , the aquarium's director, began at a relatively new exhibition—though of course it was all new to me—featuring efforts by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the aquarium's parent organization, to preserve aquatic habitat in places such as the Brazilian rainforest and the freshwater lakes of Africa.

In the Coral Camp Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

This is a floating island here in the Baltimore harbor, says Laura Bankey, the aquarium's conservation manager.

Islands of Plastic and Plants 2010

"We have received scattered reports of manatee sightings over the past three weeks, but ¿ no photographic evidence exists," Jennifer Dittmar, stranding coordinator for the aquarium's marine animal rescue program, said in a statement.

Manatee spotted near Baltimore's harbor washingtonpost.com 2010

The whole thing resembled the backdrop to a Spielberg movie; it was easy to imagine some sort of killer strain of coral, perhaps of extraterrestrial origin, getting loose, consuming the aquarium's harbor seals and then making a beeline for Manhattan.

In the Coral Camp Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

In all my years working on Wall Street, I only went to the NYSE once—to the visitors' gallery where I gawked at traders through a glass wall, much like an aquarium's shark tank.

Make Way for the Virtual Exchange Andy Kessler 2011

The guest of honor in the aquarium's Kids 'Corner octopus tank had swum to the top of the enclosure and disassembled the recycling system's valve, flooding the place with some 200 gallons of seawater.

Boing Boing 2009

This is a floating island here in the Baltimore harbor, says Laura Bankey, the aquarium's conservation manager.

Islands of Plastic and Plants 2010

It's easy to see why Juno, one of the aquarium's three Belugas, is a star here and a YouTube sensation--the video of him "dancing" to a Mariachi Band earlier this summer has garnered more than a million hits.

Eileen Ogintz: Boys Meet a Beluga in Mystic Eileen Ogintz 2011

So, the aquarium's Beluga Encounters show goes on, featuring opportunities to "feed, touch and get splashy with the belugas."

Cynthia Powell: Humans' Love Affair With Beluga Whales- Are We Smothering Them? Cynthia Powell 2010