Marineland News

The Ancient City Antiques and Collectibles Club will visit Dora Renninger's Antiques and Collectors Extravaganza in Mt.

ZAAT is a radioactive walking catfish that was dreamed up by local filmmaker Don Barton and put on film in 1971.

So what if the readers of a popular movie Web site, IMDb.com , voted it the seventh worst movie ever made? So what if the wiseguys on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" mocked it mercilessly? "Zaat," the movie, has proven to be as hard to kill as the Zaat monster itself, a giant radioactive walking catfish-man who threatened vast swaths of Northeast ...

The year-long celebration of the City of St. Augustine Beach's 50th anniversary is nearing the end, but not before an official birthday party and other major events.

The actions of a woman armed with a shotgun trying to commit "suicide by cop" led to the evacuation of Marineland's beach park and a car chase that ended up in St.

JON M. FLETCHER/The Times-UnionFlorida Times-Union reporter Matt Soergel tries on the head of Zaat, a creature featured in the 1970s film of the same name by Jacksonville resident and retired filmmaker Don Barton.

Waleed Alkhatib, 19, is freshly dressed in a beige suit, dark brown tie and tan shoes when he meets Books-A-Million store manager Stephen Paine on Thursday morning.

Celebrity German polar bear Flocke and her Russian companion are moving to a new home in southern France.

Marineland and University of Florida's Whitney Lab, have partnered with Ripple Effect Ecotours to offer ecological kayak tours in one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet, the coastal estuary.

A Thursday lecture and a special program to benefit the children's programs are planned this week at Marineland of Florida.

Prepare to be desalinated -- eventually. And it's a good thing. Those were among the messages delivered by a panel of experts during a public meeting Wednesday night in Marineland to discuss a proposed water desalination plant to supply the region's taps.

Interested in a debriefing on desalination? The Coquina Coast Seawater Desalination Project will hold a public meeting Wednesday in Marineland to discuss its plans to turn seawater into drinking water.

Local environmentalists as well as residents are concerned about last month's discovery that large coquina boulders and rocks were being removed illegally from the coastal Marineland area.

The group will walk the boardwalk, see the rookery, and visit the education building.

Tyler Williams, 12, works with a dolphin at the Dolphin Conservation Center at Marineland with Krista Aiello in the facility's pool in Flagler County on Wednesday, September 16, 2009.

The Guana Reserve will participate in an international coastal cleanup from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

The replacement of the Summer Haven bridges along State Road A1A, just south of the Claude Varn Bridge over the Matanzas Inlet and north of the Flagler County line, has begun.

"Snakes 101" will be the topic of discussion at 1 p.m. Saturday at the GTM Research Reserve, with specialist Jake Fitzroy presents an interactive workshop on snake facts and myths.

The GTM Research Reserve will participate in an International Coastal Cleanup at two locations on Sept.

Pieces of the coquina outcroppings that line the beaches in northern Flagler County are reportedly being taken, causing irreversible damage.