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Cameras have been mounted to sea lions to monitor their behavior, accidentally creating the "best slow TV ever"

Scientists attach cameras to sea lions for conservation, create "best slow TV ever"

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 Sea lions strapped with cameras have helped scientists map the ocean floor for the first time.Australian researchers enlisted endangered sea lions to help identify their previously unmapped ocean habitats.Eight adult female sea lions had small, lightweight cameras glued to their fur.Using 89 hours of recordings taken by the sea lions, the researchers identified six seabed habitats covering 5,000 square km of seabed in southern Australia.The incredible footage has been shared by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI).Author Nathan Angelaki said: “Using animal-borne video and movement data from a predator is a really effective way of mapping diverse habitats across large areas of the seabed.”      Read More               Bluey coins theft suspect arrested after allegedly stealing £309,000 worthDuke and Duchess of Sussex arrive in ColombiaNew snow leopard cubs play with mother at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia      

Sea lions carry cameras to help scientists map ocean floor for first time

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Using cameras fixed to their fur, the sea lions can access much more of the ocean's habitats.

Swim Along With Sea Lion Scientists As They Explore Previously Unmapped Ocean Floor

A new discovery by a team of paleontologists, led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville (University of Tsukuba, Japan), has uncovered a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from the Lower Pleistocene deposits in the North Atlantic. This species, named Ontocetus posti, displays surprising similarities in feeding adaptations to the modern walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), highlighting an intriguing case of convergent evolution. The research is published in the journal PeerJ.

New species of extinct walrus-like mammal discovered in the North Atlantic

Let’s spend a few minutes time traveling back to the Devonian period, where we unravel the mysteries hidden within the lungfish genome — the world’s largest animal genome, and a treasure trove of information about one of evolution’s most pivotal transitions. Picture yourself at the edge...

Lungfish genome discovery explains how fish first walked onto land

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An "incredibly rare" fish was found at La Jolla Cove recently, making it the 20th time an oarfish has been spotted in California in the last century.

'Incredibly rare' dead sea serpent surfaces in California waters; just 1 of 20 since 1901

On a tropical island that's part of modern-day Indonesia, archaeologist have uncovered a remarkable find: a bone fragment belonging to an archaic adult hominin that stood a diminutive three and a half feet tall. The discovery and identification of this arm bone, detailed in new study in Nature Communications, reveal...

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hobbit-Like Creatures on Remote Island

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Anyone living in alligator or crocodile territory knows about the vicious speed of surprise attacks. Using caution around the water’s edge and protecting any pets becomes paramount. However, even when locals and visitors exercise caution, it doesn’t always help prevent attacks. And unlike attacks from other predators (like bears), there does not appear to be […]

Meet ‘Gustave’ — The World’s Most Dangerous Crocodile with 200+ Rumored Kills

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The reality of what lies within our oceans has fascinated people since time immemorial, so it’s no wonder we’ve created countless myths about the watery depths.But step aside, Atlantis, scientists have discovered a real Lost City beneath the waves, and this one is teaming with life.The rocky, towering landscape is located west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge mountain range, hundreds of metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, and consists of massive walls, columns and monoliths stretching more than 60 metres (200ft) tall.To be clear, it’s not the home of some long-forgotten human civilisation, but that doesn’t make its existence...

'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic is like nothing else we've ever seen on Earth

Editor's note: This article was originally published on May 25, 2022. It has since been updated. The vaquita, also known as the Phocoena sinus, is a small porpoise that is native to the northern area of the Gulf of California. This divine sea creature can grow to be approximately five feet long and, when fully grown, weighs around 120 pounds. The animal has been on the endangered list for several years now, but concerns about its survival are growing. There were 600 vaquitas in 1997. The population dwindled to 30 in 2017, and today, there are thought to be only about 10 left. Environmentalists believe fishermen’s use of gill nets is the reason behind the vaquita's increasing endangerment, Kingdoms TV reports.

This is the stunning vaquita, the rarest animal in the world. Only 10 of them exist.

A viral video on Instagram has nearly 2 million likes, with many people chiming in that it’s the most majestic thing they’ve ever seen. The underwater video shows a blue whale diving beneath the waves after surfacing for a breath. As the blue whale dives, a man swims alongside it, showing just how massive the marine mammal is compared to a human. It’s breathtaking. So much so that some people question if it’s even real.

WATCH: Man Swimming With Blue Whale Seems Almost TOO Incredible

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A check from an Irvine business was intercepted from the mail around May 3, according to the Irvine Police Department . This man is suspected of depositing the stolen check into an ATM account. The investigation is ongoing, but it would be helpful to the investigation to identify this suspect.

Man wanted for stealing a $20K check in Irvine and depositing it at an ATM

A23a, the world’s largest iceberg, has been astonishingly stationary north of Antarctica. Despite entering the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, it has been trapped by a Taylor Column, a rotating water cylinder formed above a seafloor bump, the Pirie Bank. This iceberg, over twice the size of Greater London, has been spinning in place, thwarting its expected drift towards warmer waters.

A23a: World’s largest iceberg trapped in ocean vortex

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

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Herbie J Pilato

[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the commentary and quotes in this article are from the author's interview with those mentioned.]. Elizabeth Montgomery was one of the most popular actors from the 1950s to her unfortunate passing from cancer in 1995. Before, during, and after her benchmark Emmy-nominated role as twitch-witch Samantha Stephens on TV's Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972), Montgomery made over 200 additional appearances in other weekly shows, TV-movies, and feature films.

'Bewitched' Star Elizabeth Montgomery Received Death Threats for Protesting the Vietnam War

The biggest iceberg on the planet has apparently been spinning in place for months — and that's very much not what it's supposed to do. As the BBC reports, the ginormous iceberg, dubbed A23a, is supposed to be moving along Earth's most powerful current. Instead, it's trapped atop a...

The World’s Biggest Iceberg Has Started Spinning

Seismologists measure tremors from distances up to 5000 km away. On September 16, 2023, a massive wave struck a fjord on Greenland’s east coast, leaving evidence of flooding up to 200 meters (650 feet) high in some areas. Researchers, led by Angela Carrillo Ponce from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), have analyzed seismic data from earthquake monitoring stations worldwide and uncovered another remarkable event. The megatsunami triggered a standing wave that oscillated back and forth in the narrow, uninhabited Dickson Fjord for over a week. The international team has published their findings in the journal The Seismic Records.

650 Feet High: The Megatsunami That Rocked Greenland’s East Coast

NEW YORK, NY.- Most modern scorpions would fit in the palm of your hand. But in the oceans of the Paleozoic era more than 400 million years ago, animals known popularly as sea scorpions were apex predators that could grow larger than people in size. “They were effectively functioning as...

Fossils show giant predatory sea scorpions were distance swimmers

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In a remarkable underwater discovery, wreck divers uncovered a heavily armed 18th-century pirate ship between Morocco and Spain off the coast. The ship, identified as a Barbary pirate, is a rare find and the first to be discovered in the heart of the Barbary Coast, an area notorious for its centuries-long reign of terror on the high seas.

Wreck Divers Discover 18th-Century Barbary Pirate Ship Loaded with Priceless Artifacts

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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Watch Thousands of Sleeping Sharks Form a \"Carpet\" on the Ocean Floor

A huge school of bizarre-looking sharks in Australia has been caught on video sleeping on the ocean floor in a \"carpet\" formation — and it's not...

A huge school of bizarre-looking sharks in Australia has been caught on video sleeping on the ocean floor in a "carpet" formation — and it's not...

Watch Thousands of Sleeping Sharks Form a "Carpet" on the Ocean Floor

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