ingilizce Haberler Archive
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Curious cows help save seal pup stuck in mud after swept by tide into UK marshland
A bird watcher at Frampton Marsh Nature Reserve in Lincolnshire, U.K., says he didn’t find any birds through his telescope, but rather, a much more usual scene: about a dozen curious cows surrounding a seal pup stuck in mud. Ian […]
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California swimmer recovering from sea lion attack; 'big black face'
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A local ocean swimmer is recovering after a seal or sea lion bit her leg. Maryejo del Meijer was attacked early Wednesday morning while swimming buoys with friends at Leadbetter Beach. […]
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Chopper: Propeller-injured dolphin serves as reminder against feeding them
Wildlife managers are monitoring a dolphin gravely injured by a boat propeller off Madeira Beach and using the encounter to teach a lesson to the marine mammals’ human admirers. Don’t feed the animals. It’s illegal to feed or harass any […]
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Freak: Diver killed in windsurfer collision on Gran Canaria
The accident happened at around 2.45pm on Monday afternoon in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, on the south east coast of the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria. The unnamed woman, 31, who had been living in Spain “for a […]
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The Deep: Missing Andrea Doria diver presumed dead
The US Coast Guard has called off its search for a 64-year-old diver lost off Nantucket near the wreck of the Andrea Doria. Officials believe he is the seventh person to die in the area within a decade. The man, […]
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Dive team discovers 116-year-old shipwreck in Lake Michigan; 'not a railing missing'
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A 214-foot steamship called the John V. Moran has been discovered in Lake Michigan, more than a century after it sank. A team with the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association located the vessel off the coast of […]
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Arctic Resurgent: Sea Ice rebounds To 1980s Levels of Cap Cover; Don't Panic, Scientists Insist We're All Still Doomed
The Arctic ice cap has not, contrary to the predictions of climate alarmists, completely disappeared: in fact it has been growing rapidly, increasing by an entire third just in 2013 and more since. “It would suggest that sea ice is […]
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Threatened fish take historic helicopter ride in Banff National Park
BANFF NATIONAL PARK — The small westslope cutthroat trout slide out of a blue camping cooler as Mark Taylor carefully lowers it into their new home, Rainbow Lake. Taylor, an aquatics ecologist for Banff National Park, has rigged the cooler with an oxygen […]
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Psychologist: Shark attacks cause depression, anxiety; 'a very very different kind of horror'
SHARK attacks like the one on Ballina bodyboarder Mathew Lee and world surfing champion Mick Fanning have the potential to shatter illusions of control and even bring on depression and anxiety, Southern Cross University psychology lecturer and researcher Dr Jim […]
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Car-sized ball of squid eggs filmed off the coast of Turkey
Oh July 9th, 2015 a group of lucky divers happened upon something truly remarkable–A 4-meter-wide clear sphere floating off the coast of a small town in Turkey. The sphere was 22 meters below the sea surface, and even up close, it appears […]
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Protect and serve: Police divers recover swimmer’s prosthetic leg lost in pond
Eau Claire Fire Department divers recovered a $16,000 prosthetic leg Monday after William Richardson lost it while swimming in Dell’s Pond near Mount Simon Park. After Richardson called the fire department Monday, two boats of seven crew members spent about […]
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Japanese Whale meat stocks shrink to 15-year low
Jiji Press TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Whale meat inventories have been declining markedly, hitting 1,157 tons at the end of May, the lowest level since the 817 tons in March 2000, Fisheries Agency data have revealed. This is because Japan […]
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NOAA authorities are tracking a severely injured dolphin off Florida beach
Authorities are tracking a severely injured dolphin off Madeira Beach and seeking information from anyone who may have witnessed suspicious activity around the animal that led to its condition. The bottlenose dolphin has life-threatening wounds to its back and tail, […]
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Pictures: Plymouth Olympic diver Tom Daley transformed into shark
It’s been said sharks are perfectly suited for a life in the water, and the same may be true for British Olympic diver Tom Daley who has transformed himself into a shark ahead of Shark Week in the UK. Plymouth-born […]
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Does Arctic deal really ban North Pole fishing?
July 17, 2015 Norway, Canada, Denmark, Russia, and the US, the five coastal states of the central Arctic Ocean, have signed a declaration to combat unregulated fishing and establish research cooperation in the international part of the region. This is […]
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Shark bite victim talks about life after the attack; 'I was pretty calm honestly, surprisingly'
(KUSA) One month ago a 16-year-old boy from Colorado Springs was on vacation with family when he became Victim Number Two of seven people attacked by sharks along the North Carolina coast. Hunter Treschl is now recovering at home in […]
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Whale-watching crews say Salish Sea’s orca calves are doing well
Crews with the Pacific Whale Watching Association say four orca calves born since Dec. 30 have been spotted almost daily from the San Juan Islands to Vancouver Island this month and appear to be happy and healthy. The trade group […]
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NOAA: Record 117-Month Major Hurricane Drought Continues; 'Unprecedented in the historical record'
(CNSNews.com)—It has been 117 months since a major hurricane, defined as a Category 3 or above, has made landfall in the continental United States, according to 2015 data from the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
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How the Hell Does This Fish Get Around?
That’s a legitimate scientific question. Multiple teams of researchers have wondered how the yellow boxfish manages to swim when it looks like someone attached fins to a cube of cheese. Find out how this thing moves. If you’re wondering how […]
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UNESCO says explorer’s Madagascar pirate treasure claim is false
JOHANNESBURG — The account of an American underwater explorer who says he found a silver ingot that belonged to 17th century pirate Captain Kidd in Madagascar is false, the United Nations said Tuesday. The so-called silver ingot is actually a […]
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Canada, Russia expected to unite for moratorium on High Arctic fishing
A moratorium on commercial fishing in the High Arctic – which was agreed to but never signed last year, as Russia and Canada squared off over the conflict in Ukraine – is expected to be endorsed this week at a […]
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Fish nearly 4-feet long and weighing 60-pounds discovered in Kansas drainage ditch
A Missouri animal control officer made a very fishy discovery last Friday morning. When Resource Officer Jamie Schmidt peered down into a Kansas City drainage ditch she saw a gigantic 60-pound grass carp that was nearly 4-feet-long. Schmidt said a […]
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Australia: Suffering grey nurse shark triggers distress on social media
AN image posted by a Byron Bay dive company showing a grey nurse shark with a large rope tied around its tale has sparked distress on social media. Byron Scuba diving company Sundive has posted a photo of the shark, […]
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Australia: ‘Rogue’ seals blamed for fish business dive
THOUSANDS of “rogue seals” pestering fish farms are being relocated by the Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment Department, and are threatening commercial and recreational scale fisheries, a Senate committee into the state’s expanding aquaculture industry has been told. Fish […]
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Huge and ancient underwater volcanoes discovered off coast of Sydney
Four enormous underwater volcanoes, thought to be about 50m years old, have been discovered off the coast of Sydney by a team of scientists who were looking for lobster larvae. The volcano cluster was spotted through sonar mapping of the […]
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Orca’s aerial show hides nature’s brutal truth: Attack on humpback whale baby
As nature took its course beneath the ocean’s surface at Ningaloo at the weekend, a resident orca put on an unforgettable display for a group of lucky tourists. The male killer whale, known to those in the area as Augie, […]
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Russia’s DARPA working on underwater battlebots to protect coastline
Russia’s advanced military technology agency is working on a special underwater robot to protect Russian shores from foreign underwater intruders, news agency TASS reported Wednesday, citing the Foundation for Advanced Research Projects. The project will be taken on as part of ongoing research into methods of detecting and locating ultra-quiet underwater […]
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Split-colored lobster caught off Maine, 1 in 50 million find
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A rare orange-brown split-colored lobster has turned up off the coast of Maine. The Press Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1CjXCKL ) that the unusual lobster arrived last week at Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op in Scarborough. According to research […]
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Shark Week Draws Record Demo Ratings for Discovery
Discovery’s “Shark Week” again took a big bite out of the competition, with this year’s edition ranking as the highest-rated ever in many demos and lifting the network to No. 1 finishes for all of television in some of these […]
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Navy divers remove unexploded shells, cannonballs from CSS Georgia
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – United States Navy divers have finished the job of removing all the unexploded shells and cannon balls from the CSS Georgia, the Civil War Ironclad that has been sitting at the bottom of the Savannah River […]
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A whale of a reunion off Vancouver coast: Young orca finally finds his mom
It was a fairy-tale ending for Sam the killer whale when after nearly two years of separation the young orca was finally reunited with its family. Sam, who also goes by the scientific name T46C2, was just two years old […]
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Dolphin virus die-off might be over off East Coast
The bottlenose dolphin virus outbreak that is suspected of killing most of the 1,660 dolphins found dead or dying along the East Coast over the past two years appears to have waned. No stranded dolphin has tested positive in South […]
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Divers aim to set a new underwater record above the Arctic Circle
A group of scuba divers from the Russian city of Kazan (500 miles east of Moscow) are planning to perform a deep-water dive of over 100 meters in the Barents Sea in northwest Russia. It promises to be the deepest […]
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Kiwi: Paua fishers alarmed at shark-diving permit breaches
There won’t be buckets placed at 2nd Ave Pier and Pier 14 for fisherman to dispose of their fish guts after all. Myrtle Beach City Council on Tuesday decided not to move forward with an ordinance that would have made […]
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Baby great white shark given second chance at life
ATLANTA – Here’s a little something to curb your ‘Shark Week’ withdraws. A baby Great White shark that washed up on a Cape Cod beach Monday in now free to roam about the ocean again thanks to the quick thinking […]
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Rare Pilot whale sighting off San Diego coast
SAN DIEGO – Video shows a rare sighting of Pilot whales caught by local whale watchers Saturday morning. Whale watchers onboard a San Diego Whale Watch excursion whipped out their phones to catch a pod of at least 30 Pilot […]
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Huge herring haul worries rival fishermen, environmentalists from Maine to New Jersey
ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — A little fish that New Englanders have sought since the Colonial era is at the center of a battle over how to manage massive boats that trawl swaths of ocean off the East Coast, from Maine […]
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Amazing photographs show adorable seals playing in the same New Zealand waterfall they return to every year
This is the unique inland waterfall that is used as a creche by dozens of baby seals. The fur seal youngsters have turned the beautiful Ohau Waterfall, just north of Kaikoura, New Zealand, into their personal swimming pool despite it […]
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China’s batty proposal for an under-sea train to the United States
A lone report in China’s state-run Beijing Times claims the nation is already in discussions to build an 8,000+ mile railroad connecting China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.—including a 125 mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait. Forget taking this […]
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Brazil prosecutors probe deaths of 10,000 aquarium fish
Prosecutors in Brazil have begun investigating the deaths of about 10,000 fish that had been brought in to fill a huge freshwater aquarium. Building work on the project, in the western city of Campo Grande, overran and the fish died […]
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North Carolina: Dolphin bitten by shark washes ashore at Kure Beach
KURE BEACH, NC (WECT) – A dolphin died after it was injured by a shark and washed ashore on Kure Beach Friday morning. Dr. Ann Pabst, a professor at UNCW, said the adult male dolphin had a few superficial shark bites. […]
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Watch: Sleeper Shark Pops Up in Unexpected Place
By Jane Lee, National Geograhpic PUBLISHED July 08, 2015 A big part of exploring the ocean involves tossing expensive equipment into the sea and hoping it comes back in one piece. Usually, the instruments return—maybe with an extra dent or […]
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Why do so many whales die on British beaches? Bad weather, military sonar and toxic chemicals can all lead to stranding
The sight of a sentient, beautiful dolphin or whale, slowly dying on a beach, is one of the most heart-rending scenes you would ever hope not to see. Fighting for air, weighed down by their own flesh, their glittering eyes […]
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‘Rise’ in humpback whale sightings off western Scotland
Humpback whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction off the coast of Scotland An adult humpback whale has been spotted off western Scotland for a fifth time in a month, compared with the usual total of just one […]
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Watch: Humpback whales talk to wannabe Dr Doolittle underwater
The whale watcher’s amateur attempts to communicate under the sea produced thrilling footage of a pod of Humpbacks answering his call. Using only a microphone and amplifier, the youngster uses his version of “whale speak” to draw in the humpbacks […]
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The great lost city: Was Plato really the Man from Atlantis?
‘In terms of sheer numbers of people affected, probably the most influential thing Plato ever wrote was his unfinished story of Atlantis.’ Adams had to reread this twice before its significance sank in. ‘That the story of Atlantis should have […]
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Open Water: One of three missing Korean divers in Cebu found dead
CEBU, PHILIPPINES – A 45-year-old Korean diver, who was one of the three divers who went missing last Sunday, was found dead near the shore off Camotes Island, Cebu, Wednesday morning. The body of Heo Seung Yung, 45, was found […]
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Pamela Anderson writes to Putin on behalf of endangered Fin whales
The Baywatch series star actress Pamela Anderson has written an open letter to the Russian President, urging him to use his authority over Russian territorial waters to block the passage of a cargo ship carrying 1,700 tonnes of fin whale […]
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New Brain Scans Show How Dolphins Use Sound to See
Most of us consider vision and hearing to be two separate senses. But dolphins use sound to see, emitting clicks, squawks and whistles to reveal hidden objects. This is called echolocation, and a new map of dolphin brain circuitry hints […]
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research: Smelling a Fish May Improve Critical Thinking Skills
When you’re distrustful of something, you might say that it’s “fishy.” Now, writes Popular Science’s Alexandra Ossola, that term may take on a new meaning — new research shows that the smell of fish not only makes people more suspicious, […]
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Global underwater shark study the first video survey in coral areas
The first ever global survey of sharks, rays and skates in coral reef environments using underwater cameras will begin in August. The Global FinPrint survey uses technology called baited remote underwater video (Bruv) to take one hour of underwater footage, […]
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4-Foot Alligator Caught In Passaic River
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Authorities in New Jersey snared an approximately 4-foot-long alligator in the Passaic River on Wednesday. Police showed up to a marina off River Drive in Elmwood Park at around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a […]
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300-pound gator trapped after hanging out on woman’s porch
ST. PETERSBURG (FOX 13) – A local woman woke up to quite the surprise early Wednesday morning when she spotted a 300-pound gator with blood-stained teeth on her front porch. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and St. Pete police […]
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Tiger shark sinks its teeth into scientific study
What’s happening in this video? In this video, a tiger shark investigates and eventually bites an underwater hydrophone that our team set up in the Bahamas to study tiger shark movements. This is part of a larger collaborative research project […]
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‘Mega Shark’ episode criticized as a ‘low point’ for ‘Shark Week’
As Shark Week viewers remain immersed in the fascinating universe of apex predators that rule the oceans, delivered each year in July by Discovery, experts are paying close attention to detail, and not all of them like what they’re seeing. […]
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Camera captures the raw power of a large great white shark, but that’s not all
As Shark Week plays out, divers in South Africa’s Mossel Bay enjoyed an incredible real-life shark moment, involving a massive great white tearing at a hunk of tuna and a surprise breach that was caught on camera. The accompanying footage […]
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Diver holds her breath for two minutes as she swims alongside whales which are longer than a bus
A pod of sperm whales have been captured on film swimming through the deep blue waters near the Caribbean, accompanied by a freediver who looks minuscule compared to their huge bulk. Holding her breath for up to two and a […]
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Video: Whales breach surface and scare sailor into uncontrollable laughter
WARNING: Graphic language SEWARD, Alaska – A whale pod gave a sailor in Alaska a surprise of a lifetime. According to FOX 5, a man sailing along the Alaskan coast was overcome with joy when a pod of whales emerged […]
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WWF: 12,000 dolphins killed every year in Pakistan
KARACHI: Described as an intelligent and inquisitive marine mammal, dolphins are loved all over the world for their playful behaviour. Sadly, this beautiful creature is facing a battle for its survival in our sea waters. A recent study conducted by […]
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Caymans: Picture perfect day as dive statue is put in place
The Guardian of the Reef, Cayman’s latest dive attraction, is already attracting plenty of attention from scuba divers. The bronze statue drew scores of onlookers, including a bevy of underwater photographers, as it was lowered into place on Saturday just […]
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Women plan 3,000km Northwest Passage snorkel relay
A travel writer, adventurer and scientist from Calgary has persuaded nine women to join her in a 3,000-kilometre snorkel relay from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, to Inuvik, N.W.T. Susan R. Eaton says she’s passionate about adventure, empowering Inuit women and girls, and […]
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Florida angler stops for gas with giant mako shark stuffed in bed of pickup truck
Imagine pulling into a gas station and seeing a pickup truck pull in toting an enormous mako shark that is nearly spilling out of the vehicle’s bed. The accompanying image was posted Wednesday on the Pensacola News Journal Facebook page, […]
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Sharks not 'living fossils,' non-living fossil reveals
Sharks are usually thought of as primitive creatures, sometimes called “living fossils.” But a new study of a 325-million-year-old shark fossil — the most complete of its kind — suggests modern sharks have evolved significantly from their bony ancestors. The […]
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'It’s really smelly:' Dead grey whale washes ashore on Oregon coast
SEASIDE, Ore. – It’s so bad, you can practically smell it from here. A 40-foot grey whale began washing up on the beach at Seaside, leaving a big mess for cleanup crews and a powerful odor for everybody in the […]
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Lost sea lion pup rescued a mile from San Joaquin River
MODESTO, Calif., April 16 (UPI) — Your stubborn spouse is not the only one with an awful sense of direction. Even adorable sea lion pups can lose their way. At least “Hoppie” can. Yesterday, a 36-pound male sea lion pup […]
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Norfolk minke whales killed by 'unusual' ship strikes
The two whales that washed up dead on the coast of Norfolk in the space of a week were most likely killed by ship strikes, in what scientists called an “unusual event”. A small common female minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) […]
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Helium played dual role in 1960's Sealab experiment
While it is probably best known for giving people squeaky voices when we inhale it, helium has also been used extensively within so-called “breathing gas,” an atmospheric mixture used for human respiration when it otherwise wouldn’t be possible. In 1964, […]
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Israelis find how eyeless fish navigates
A blind fish found in the pools of pitch-black Mexican caves uses high frequency waves it generates with its mouth in order to navigate, a group of Israeli researchers has found, in much the same way that bats use sound […]
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Aussie: Divers release rare video of Geltwood shipwreck
Divers release rare video of Geltwood shipwreck Locals on South Australia’s Limestone Coast are immersing themselves in the region’s history this week as part of the Geltwood Festival, named after one of Australia’s worst maritime disasters. The Geltwood sank in […]
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Ping: Search Ship Detects a Black Box 'Pulse Signal' From 3.5 Miles Below Southern Indian Ocean
The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane took an extraordinary twist last night when China said it may have detected a signal from its black box recorder on the floor of the Indian Ocean. The faint signal was picked […]
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Rare shark is born in Dorset man's hands
IT can probably be described as an unusual day at work when you empty a mermaid’s purse and a shark is born in your hands. But that’s what happened at Weymouth’s Sea Life Adventure Park when a baby banded bamboo […]
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Japan’s puffer fish capital: Delicious and deadly
CNN — (CNN) — It’s 3:15 a.m. Under the bright lights of the waterfront Haedomari warehouse in Shimonoseki, Japan, tails twitch and bodies writhe in defiance of the onset of death. The floor is awash with seawater as Yoshi Yanagawa […]
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'Incredibly Strong' Hagfish slime mystery unraveled by Canadian scientists
Researchers at the University of Guelph have figured out what makes the slime secreted by the hagfish so strong, hoping it can lead to the commercial development of stronger fibres. Prof. Douglas Fudge and his team used electron microscopes and […]
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New biological opinion on Steller sea lions gives OK for expanded Aleutian fishing
Some of the rules that limit commercial fishing in the western Aleutian Islands are no longer needed to protect endangered Steller sea lions, federal regulators said in a management document issued Wednesday. In a 281-page biological opinion, the National Marine […]
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The extensive ice cover could delay fish migrations in the Great Lakes
The prolonged winter and the ice cover on the Great Lakes could lead to some lasting effects on wildlife. For one thing, scientists expect that a lot of the fish that people like to catch will be showing up late […]
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Orphaned South African penguin chicks saved from starvation
More than 800 endangered African penguin chicks have been saved from starvation in South Africa as part of a conservation project led by the Bristol Zoological Society. Conservationists working on the Chick Bolstering project took chicks from a number of […]
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Costa Rican Coast Guard captures boat with 153 illegal shark fins
At least 40 sharks were killed by an illegal shark-finning boat detained off the shores of Golfito in Costa Rica’s South Pacific. The boat was discovered during a two-day Coast Guard operation on Sunday and Monday. Shark finning – where […]
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Missing fish found wandering in river seven miles from home
Chadwick the chagoi koi carp was found in Totton two months after escaping from Romsey World of Water seven miles away 6:47pm Thursday 3rd April 2014 in News Chadwick was found in the River Test in Totton IT is a […]
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Floating junk: It's a miracle to find anything in our trash-filled oceans
Stand several feet away from a Georges Seurat pointillist masterpiece such as A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and your eye comprehends the whole scene. Only when you step closer will you notice the distinct, individual points of color making […]
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Brush with death! Great white shark tries to take a bite out of group of divers
ATTACK: Cedric described the adrenaline rush that he got when the shark bit [BARCROFT] Cedric Alexanderson – who described it as the closest he has ever been to death – caught the full terrifying encounter on camera. Cedric was diving […]
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Dolphin meat trade in Taiwan continues despite ban
In Taiwan, trade in dolphin meat is continuing more than 20 years after the government banned it. The meat, seen as a delicacy with health-giving properties, was banned back in 1989. However, some fishermen and restaurateurs continue to meet local […]
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Life under the sea: Incredible time-lapse video reveals corals and sponges in all their alien-like beauty as they forage for food
A PhD student from the University of Queensland, Australia has put together an incredible video of coral life Marine biologist Daniel Stoupin created the film to show the secret life of the ‘slow’ marine animals The corals and sponges were […]
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How Lil Wayne the NYC Octopus Will Help Scientists Understand the Brain
Lil Wayne the two-spot octopus at Brooklyn College; image courtesy of Katherine Harmon Courage BROOKLYN—It wasn’t hard to name Lil Wayne. He actually volunteered to take the rapper’s moniker. On April 2, Frank Grasso, director of the Biomemetic and Cognitive […]
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Whale Wars: Sea Shepherd claims to have saved 750 whales from Japanese harpoons
This image taken by the Sea Shepherd Australia Ltd / Animal Amnesty shows a tiger shark caught off Moses Rock in Western Australia. Photo: AFP / Sea Shepherd Australia Ltd / Animal Amnest Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd claims its […]
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Sea Shepherd anti-whaling pressure said to continue; 'fill that law enforcement vacuum'
The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd is vowing to keep the pressure on Japan’s whaling fleet, as the Antarctic summer draws to a close. Its vessel, the Bob Barker, has docked in Wellington after spending more than three months trying to […]
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Prince George family gets a close encounter with hunting killer whales; 'It was a little nerve-wracking'
A Prince George family got more than they bargained for on a boat trip near Prince Rupert on Wednesday. Travis Twizell says his family was on a boat near Digby island in Chatham Sound when they saw four big sea lions […]
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South Africa: Fatal shark attack at Port St Johns; 'It's Horrible'
(Picture: NSRI) Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories Paddy Harper, City Press Johannesburg – Another fatal shark attack has taken place at Port St […]
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Why The Exxon Valdez Spill Was A Eureka Moment For Science
An oiled murre passes the darkened shoreline near Prince William Sound, Alaska, less than a month after the March 1989 spill. (Anchorage Daily News/MCT/Landov) On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, […]
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The life aquatic with master diver and filmmaker Howard Hall
Howard Hall with the Pig, a camera that can shoot IMAX films under the sea. IMAX technology, which is more than forty years old, owes its amazing longevity to its visual quality. Experts estimate that its effective resolution is in […]
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Myanmar's marine 'Lost World' braces for tourism; 'absolutely enchanted'
Where the Indian Ocean rolls toward Myanmar’s southwestern coast, a lacework of 800 islands rises, fringed with shimmering beaches of no footprints. Here hornbills break a primeval silence as they flutter through soaring jungle canopy. Pythons slumber on the gnarled […]
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How Paul Watson Avoided Getting Arrested by Costa Rica
Source: Paul Watson Facebook Timeline Paul Watson, the controversial founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and star of the popular reality television show Whale Wars of the Animal Planet cable network, recently left an interesting status update on his […]
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What happens when four sharks meet a giant school of fish
Four blacktip reef sharks swim among a school of bait fish off the coast of Argentina. The fish, naturally, do not seem happy to see said sharks. That is most certainly because the sharks are hungry, and they are the […]
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Report criticizes wasteful discarding of fish; “one of the largest threats to maintaining healthy fish populations”
By Richard Salit rsalit@providencejournal.com So much seafood is inadvertently caught and tossed overboard for dead that the persistent practice is a serious threat to efforts to restore depleted U.S. fish populations, including numerous species off Rhode Island, according to a […]
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Deep freeze means rare rise in Great Lakes water levels
It looks as if there will be at least one positive from the deep freeze the Midwest endured this winter, and sportsmen, farmers, fish and the shipping industry all stand to benefit. Water levels in the Great Lakes are expected […]
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NOAA: Number of North Atlantic hurricanes Reaches 30-year low
The “hurricane drought” in the U.S. continues, as last year saw the lowest number of hurricanes since 1982, according to government storm data. For the 2013 hurricane season — which runs from June 1st to November 30th — thirteen named […]
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Bluefin Tuna Show Animal Migration Routes Maintained by Knowledge of Informed Elders
A new model of animal migration patterns suggests that an entire migratory route can be changed if just a few so-called “informed individuals” are removed from the larger group. A team of European researchers report that a migratory route can […]
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Ex-dolphin hunter contradicts Japanese government’s claim that dolphin slaughter is ‘century-old tradition’
The Japanese practice of dolphin hunting is again under criticism, with an ex-hunter calling the practice inhumane. Photo by Flickr user Thomas Hawk. The annual Japanese dolphin slaughter in Taiji Cove that has drawn international ire, has yet another detractor. […]
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Kiwi navy divers break open WW2 mines in sea off Auckland
The Navy has been working to make four WW2 mines in Whangaparoa harbour safe. Divers are attaching an explosive charge to each mine and detonating it to break it open. This will flood the mine and ensure the contents are […]
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Chinese authorities fish out 157 dead pigs from river
Chinese authorities have found 157 dead pigs in a river, state media have said, underscoring the country’s food safety problems a year after 16,000 carcasses were discovered in Shanghai’s main waterway. The animals were recovered from the Gan river in […]
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Sea lions exposed to toxin in algae develop form of epilepsy that is similar to humans
California sea lions exposed to a toxin in algae develop a form of epilepsy that is similar to one in humans, according to a new study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. Every year, hundreds of sea lions […]
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Ireland: Public warned not to swim with 'jumpy' Doolin dolphin
Public warned not to swim with ‘jumpy’ Doolin dolphin Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Dusty the Doolin dolphin has become “jumpy” and wary of human contact in the wake of a number of high-profile incidents involving members of the public last […]
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Otter goes on rampage in Norwegian eatery
A wounded otter went on a rampage in a restaurant in Norway, sending panicked patrons scurrying out the doors. “We did not know what kind of animal it was. I have never seen an animal like that in my life,” […]