Watch Whales Exfoliate Their Skin on the Ocean Floor
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-whales-exfoliate-their-skin-on-the-ocean-floor-180982104/
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Watch Whales Exfoliate Their Skin on the Ocean Floor
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-whales-exfoliate-their-skin-on-the-ocean-floor-180982104/
Scientists Film Plant 'Talking' to Its Neighbor, And The Footage Is Incredible : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-film-plant-talking-to-its-neighbor-and-the-footage-is-incredible
"Mystery of Strange Holes at The Bottom of The Ocean Finally Solved"
https://www.sciencealert.com/mystery-of-strange-holes-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-finally-solved
"1.75-Billion-Year-Old Fossilized Cells Are Oldest Evidence For Photosynthesis In Cyanobacteria
Advanced life depends on an oxygen-rich atmosphere, but weβre still struggling to identify the timing and causes of the one we have."
"If a stranded whale can't be saved, what is the next best option? Girius set out to find a euthanasia solution"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-08/stranded-whales-that-cant-be-saved-euthanasia-kit-designed/103152704?fbclid=IwAR1OjmPklre-xrussop2ppWlysOEG-CstRl8S9FFUweU2bnUFPZL2UpAExE
It Turns Out Paper Straws Might Pose a Serious Problem Too :
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-turns-out-paper-straws-might-pose-a-serious-problem-too
Shark's Torn Fin Seen Regenerated a Year Later in an Incredible First : https://www.sciencealert.com/sharks-torn-fin-seen-regenerated-a-year-later-in-an-incredible-first
What was it like to grow up in the last Ice Age? https://aeon.co/essays/what-was-it-like-to-grow-up-in-the-last-ice-age
Why the golden age of total solar eclipses is already behind us
https://aeon.co/videos/why-the-golden-age-of-total-solar-eclipses-is-already-behind-us
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An augmented-reality filter reveals the hidden movements all around us https://aeon.co/videos/an-augmented-reality-filter-reveals-the-hidden-movements-all-around-us
π.......but disturbing π
https://www.threads.net/@neehal_mo/post/C0yEQZgsEDj/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Megamouth shark washes up in Philippines and is only the 60th weβve ever seen. β Shark Devocean https://sharkdevocean.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/megamouth-shark-washes-up-in-philippines-and-is-only-the-60th-weve-ever-seen/
In a world first, a megamouth shark has been seen pregnant. A female of this super rare, deepwater species was found washed up on a beach in the Philippines last month.
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-sighting-pregnant-megamouth-shark-washes-up-in-the-philippines
The World Economic Forum warns there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050. Plastics are quite literally everywhere, and now a new study suggests common plastic additives are turning shrimp-like crustaceans off sex.
https://www.sciencealert.com/plastic-waste-is-turning-tiny-marine-animals-off-sex
Solar flares likely to reach maximum intensity in 2024 https://interestingengineering.com/science/solar-activity-likely-to-reach-maximum-intensity-in-2024
A Spectacular Success | Ultra Fine-Scale Seafloor Mapping Expedition - W... https://youtube.com/watch?v=m7_I4kYlchU&feature=shared
Ozone Hole May Not Be Recovering After All. In Fact, It Might Be Getting Larger.
Dr. Brian Lapointe, Research Professor
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Lapointe shares his work on the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in the tropical Atlantic Ocean that has been the source of Sargassum impacting the Caribbean region since 2011.
November 30th, 2023 @ 1 PM ET
AI predicts when and where "monster" rogue waves will swell up https://newatlas.com/science/ai-predicts-monster-rogue-waves/
Deep-sea mining and warming trigger stress in a midwater jellyfish: Study investigates effects of sediment plumes https://phys.org/news/2023-11-deep-sea-trigger-stress-midwater-jellyfish.html