Category: Nature
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Gnawing sharks force Google to protect internet cables with Kevlar
If you have been experiencing painfully longer ping times or hair-pulling latencies in your internet, you might have to blame someone else other than your internet service provider. As it turned out, a shark had been angrily chomping on the underwater cables that ferry data across the continents. Over the past two months, ruptures have…
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Beachgoers flee from brown snake at One Mile Beach in NSW
Onlookers were expecting a shark when lifeguards blew warning whistles, but instead the 1.5-metre snake made its way to the shore from between the flags at the beach at Forster. Cape Hawke Surf Lifesaving Club president Paul Scott said it was unusual for a brown snake to be at the beach. “It’s odd to see…
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Unexpected Shark Gives Explorer Shock of His Life
A National Geographic researcher is startled to see a Greenland shark where none has ever been seen before: off Russia’s Franz Josef Land. An underwater camera captured images of the shark, a species scientists know very little about.
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Diego the cat goes for a swim
Diego the cat casually strides into the surf and goes for a swim. He’s calm and collected. His humans, though, are going crazy with delight over the sight of their swimming kitten. “He’s swimming! He’s swimming! He’s swimming in the water!” See Neatorama
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Nature’s Time Capsules: A Guide to the World’s Pitch Lakes
“Pitch lakes” represent surface deposits of oil bubbled up from subterranean reservoirs through faults or fissures, often formed when the layers of sedimentary rock that contain hydrocarbons are folded or squashed in tectonic upheaval. Evaporation removes the oil’s lighter elements to produce mucky ponds of asphalt, colloquially called pitch or tar, and technically referred to…
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A Woman Found A Whole Lot Of ‘NOPE’ Swimming In This Toilet
Much in the same way Jaws made people scared to traverse the ocean’s waters and Psycho made people wary of staying in roadside motels run by insane murderers, Ghoulies caused me fear-imbued trips to the toilet as a child. After seeing this video, my nightmares have become a reality, and I have to — once…
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‘What I learned from freediving with great white sharks’
Andre Hartman struggles to walk. But every day he dreams of going back to the ocean. For decades, he made an impressive career out of freediving with great white sharks. The South African daredevil survived numerous encounters with these ocean predators. And when he needed to get closer to the animals, taking the cage out…
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Elephant breaks sprinkler and makes their own fountain
Because she can Faa Sai at Elephant Nature Park thinks that sprinkler pressure in the field is not strong enough. She break the pipe and makes their own fountain and enjoy her dancing.
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Great Horned Owl seen swimming in Lake Michigan
It’s something you’ve probably never thought about before, but evidently, owls can swim. A video published on YouTube on Tuesday by Chicago-area photographer Steve Spitzer shows a great horned owl gliding through the waters of Lake Michigan, according to WGN-TV. Spitzer said he was at Loyola Park Beach in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood when the…