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Sulla55 got today's shot at the New England Aquarium. Sulla55 got a very nice sharp photo through the glass and captured some fantastic details. The jellies seem to be floating through the frame just like you'd expect.

Fang Friends present an innovative way to deal with tourists at the aquarium's Sharks and Rays exhibit.

After the tiger attack and ensuing chaos at the San Francisco Zoo, here's some good zoo news, for a change. The New England Aquarium is welcoming many new arrivals. An anaconda celebrated the new year by giving birth to 14 little ones.

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As Bostonians we pride ourselves on our history as a city steeped in sea-faring tradition. Whether it be our statuesque U.S.S. Constitution, the ubiquitous story of the Boston Tea Party, or the ever-present duck boats, Boston and the ocean will be forever intertwined. As such, Bostonist presents some last-minute gift ideas that pay homage to our salty roots.

The sweet strains of Sir Mix-a-Lot immediately popped in our heads upon hearing the word that Kathleen the anaconda might be knocked up. The New England Aquarium performed an ultrasound, but the results were inconclusive, so a vet will keep watching her. You can watch the Aquarium's footage of Kathleen getting her ultrasound over at the Aquarium site. Kathleen and another female anaconda share space with a male anaconda who must be quite the babydaddy...

--Smoke filled a Boston University lab yesterday morning, prompting an evacuation. This wouldn't have been such big news if it weren't for the biomedical lab's experiments on infectious "rabbit fever." The Globe proved it was a master of understatement with the following sentence: "[The incident renews] concern about the danger of studying potentially deadly pathogens in a densely populated area." No kidding. --The BPD held a press conference to help find missing sailor Dustin Willis....

The Coast Guard is looking for another Massachusetts boat lost at sea. The Lady Luck, which was off Maine, sent a distress signal and hasn't been heard from since.

Unfortunately, this story about dolphins isn't as pleasant as the plot of a Douglas Adams book. Our clever water buddies just threw themselves on a sandy grave at Wollaston Beach. Surely, scientists must have a more reasonable explanation than that the dolphins are in a kamikaze mood. The Patriot Ledger has a possible reason from a spokesman at the New England Aquarium: "The dolphins were likely to have been sick because they died quickly...

The trickle started in October. We got an email from a friend reporting that we’d never believe it. Bostonist thought it sounded a little “fishy.”

My friend's older brother and his wife took their son, who is five, to the Boston Aquarium last Saturday. They have a grand ole time, walking around and checking out the sea life and then picking up some lunch afterwards. They go home and their son disappears into his bedroom to play. About a half hour later, they hear the water running in the bathroom. Thinking this is bizarre, they call out to him, and he comes running into the kitchen, to say, "I'm going to take a bath!" Mom and Dad think this is great. They didn't even have to coerce him into doing it, he actually wanted to take a bath and took it upon himself to get the tub running! Mom and Dad go into the bathroom to help him get set up and when asked which toy he wants to play with, he simply responded, "Oh, I'm going to play with my penguin." …The parents decide that the bath is getting a bit out of control, so they head into the bathroom to regulate, and to their surprise, their son is playing with a real penguin. Apparently, he stole a penguin from the aquarium by stuffing it in his backpack…They called the aquarium and they eventually sent someone over to check out the situation as they did not believe it to be true. Now the penguin and the child are under quarantine for at least two weeks to see if they have any diseases. My friend's brother and his wife still can't figure out how their son stole the penguin, but shit, if I had known it was that easy, I would have done it months ago!

The story has cropped up on a blog or two, here and there, and popped into Bostonist’s inbox from friends all over the country. Turns out the Penguin-in-a-Backpack is most likely an internet hoax. We checked out Snopes.com and the urban myth debunker machine. They’re still calling this one inconclusive. References to a similar legend in the UK in 1993 are listed in their database, and the new crop of penguin myths has seemed to circulate the internet following the success of March of the Penguins. Prompted by an incredible number of calls and inquiries, the New England Aquarium invited members of the media to witness a penguin headcount. There were still 61. After we read the article in the Boston Globe and heard NPR report about it on Friday we couldn’t wait for Snopes to update. They did on Saturday. It was trivial. Still no proof positive.