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This Feb. 17, 2014 photo shows a drilling rig in Howard county, Texas as the sun sets. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration keeps a list of "the worst of the worst" employers in the nation and drilling companies with multiple fatalities should be on it, safety experts say. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen)
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ADDS INFO: OFF THE COAST OF GEORGIA - In this 2003 photo provided by Odyssey Marine Exploration, the company’s eight-ton remotely operated vehicle, named Zeus, is launched for a descent to the ocean floor from the ship Odyssey Explorer about 100 miles off the coast of Georgia. Under a deal, approved by Judge Patrick Sheeran of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, the Tampa, Fla.-based company can begin working to recover gold bars and coins from the wreck of the SS Central America next month. (AP Photo/Odyssey Marine Exploration)
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In this photo provided by the Georgia Ports Authority, an employee starts a Porsche’s hybrid 918 Spyder automobile after it was imported at the the Georgia Ports Authority Colonel’s Island Terminal at the Port of Brunswick, Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Brunswick, Ga. The carmaker plans to produce up to 918 of this special model at its manufacturing line at Porsche AG's Zuffenhausen Plant in Stuttgart, Germany. The base price for the 918 is $845,000. (AP Photo/Georgia Ports Authority, Stephen Morton)
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Caryn Wright, environmental scientist for NV Energy, views a replanted barrel cactus under the One Nevada Transmission Line about 45 miles north of Las Vegas on Tuesday, Feb, 25, 2014. For three years NV Energy workers have been digging up plants that were growing under the 135-mile final section of the power transmission line joining Northern and Southern Nevada. NV Energy replanting the plants as close as possible to the spots from where they were taken. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)
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Caryn Wright, environmental scientist for NV Energy, touches a replanted cholla cactus plant under the One Nevada Transmission Line about 45 miles north of Las Vegas on Tuesday, Feb, 25, 2014. For three years NV Energy workers have been digging up plants that were growing under the 135-mile final section of the power transmission line joining Northern and Southern Nevada. NV Energy replanting the plants as close as possible to the spots from where they were taken. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)
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Caryn Wright, environmental scientist for NV Energy, touches a replanted creosote plant under the One Nevada Transmission Line about 45 miles north of Las Vegas on Tuesday, Feb, 25, 2014. For three years NV Energy workers have been digging up plants that were growing under the 135-mile final section of the power transmission line joining Northern and Southern Nevada. NV Energy replanting the plants as close as possible to the spots from where they were taken. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)
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North American river otters can grow to be three to four feet long and weigh between 10 and 30 pounds. They normally feed on slow-moving fishes and crustaceans. (Geoff Walsh)
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Amazing photos taken in 2011 by Geoff Walsh, and posted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday, show an otter making a meal out of an alligator at Florida's Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge. (Geoff Walsh)
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Water sprays up from cars along Park Street in front of the Town & Country Foods grocery story as water floods the street Thursday, March 6, 2014 in Livingston, Mont. The city of Livingston declared a state of emergency after melting snow flooded creeks and ditches and sent water running down city streets. (AP Photo/Livingston Enterprise, Shawn Raecke)
