Category: Nature
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Ew! Now You Can Get ‘Sea Lice’ Bites Swimming At Florida Beach
Swimmers at a Florida Panhandle beach are dealing with painful rashes from stinging jellyfish larvae. More commonly known as “sea lice,” the News Herald reports the sea lice are almost invisible to the naked eye, but they leave an unmistakable sting. They’ve been reported along Walton County’s Santa Rosa Beach this week. Scott Jackson is…
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Ocean fish prefer to eat dangerous microplastics rather than plankton new study finds
A study of European perch larvae found for the first time that exposure to high concentrations of microplastics stunts growth and alters their feeding habits, leading them to only eat plastic and ignore their natural food source of free swimming zooplankton. Experiments found the microplastic particles caused 15 percent fewer hatchings. What is more, two…
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Husky Blows Bubbles in Her Water Bowl
If you’re a Siberian Husky, then you do whatever it takes to stay cool in the summer. For Maya, that means blowing bubbles through her nose in her water dish. It’s fun, too! See Neatorama Watch this video on YouTube
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Video: Swimmer gets caught in sea of foam during Gold Coast storm
A swimmer in Australia has found himself having an unusual swim, as he stands amongst a swell of white foam. The footage posted by Cooly News on Facebook yesterday shows the man stunned, as he rises after being dunked by waves of foam at Froggy’s Beach on the Gold Coast. The foam covered such a…
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Egypt Bans Swimming off Red Sea Beach After Shark Attack
Egypt has imposed a 15-day ban on sport fishing and offshore swimming near a popular Red Sea destination where a shark attack took place last weekend. Environment Ministry officials Mohamed Salem and Beily Hatab say Monday the attack was likely caused by the combination of fishing and swimming in the same spot. The shark attack…
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Dog and owl go swimming together
The owl loves the dog so he goes where the dog goes! Watch him hitch a ride as they enjoy a nice swim in the water. This is definitely one of the most unique friendships we’ve ever seen! Watch this video on YouTube
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No Swimming At Newport Beach After Shark Bite
“Everyone out of the water” is the order being given by lifeguards in Newport Beach, after a shark bit a swimmer yesterday. The woman is recovering from bite marks. Jeff Nguyen reports. Watch this video on YouTube
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Long Distance Swimmer Stuck in Swarm of Box Jellyfish
While trying to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad swims right into a swarm of deadly jellyfish. Watch this video on YouTube
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Luxembourg boasts cleanest swimming spots in Europe
Landlocked Luxembourg has among the cleanest swimming spots in Europe, an EU-wide water quality auditi has found. Luxembourg topped the ranking in the report released on Wednesday, recording “good” or “excellent” water quality in all 11 of its outdoor wild swimming holes. The tests concerned bathing water at the Remerschen swimming lake in south-east Luxembourg,…