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Sperm Whale Shit Will Make You Rich
Between 7 billion human asses and countless bird, fish, and animal butts, our planet pumps out an ungodly amount of poop every day. Few of those turds—if any—are as valuable as the mysterious and rare fudge dragons dooked out by sperm whales.
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UN asks Australia to reconsider dumping on Great Barrier Reef
The United Nations has called on the Australian government to reconsider its approval of dumping dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. If not, the Great Barrier Reef could be listed as a World Heritage Site in Danger.
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Narwhal has the strangest tooth in the sea
Sometimes called the unicorn of the sea, the male narwhal’s tusk is actually a tooth. Narwhals detect changes in water salinity using only these tusks, a new study finds.
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Deep-sea 'alien' identified as a rare Megamouth shark is reefed from a Japanese ocean
This rare sea creature was hauled up from more than 800m beneath a Japanese ocean - and was given a public autopsy at Shizuoka Marine Science Museum.
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Recently Spotted 103-Year-Old Orca Is Bad News For SeaWorld
SeaWorld could be in trouble because of “Granny,” the world’s oldest known living orca. The 103-year-old whale (also known as J2) was recently spotted off Canada’s western coast with her pod - her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But while the Granny sighting is thrilling for us, it’s problematic for SeaWorld.
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Rare Cannibal Fish Found ALIVE in North Carolina
An extremely rare, cannibalistic lancetfish washed ashore in Nags Head, North Carolina last week. In terms of physical characterisitcs, lancetfish have very large, distinguishing fangs and tall dorsal fins. Oh yeah, they are also wont to eat their own species.
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Trillions of plastic pieces found in Arctic ice
Arctic Ocean ice may hold trillions of small pieces of plastic and other synthetic trash, and they are being released into the world's oceans as global warming melts the polar cap, researchers say. Though the finding is surprising and worrying, the possible harm to marine life is so far unknown, the authors concluded.
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Where do baby sea turtles go?
After baby loggerhead turtles hatch, they wait until dark and then dart from their sandy nests to the open ocean. A decade or so later they return to spend their teenage years near those same beaches. What the turtles do and where they go in those juvenile years has been a mystery for decades. Marine biologists call the period the “lost years.”
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The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans
While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech. What was behind his attempt to talk to us?
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Florida Turns to Smartphone App in Battle Against Invasive Lionfish
Florida has a new phone app to help cull the invasion of its waters by the spiked lionfish, a venomous species that is devouring other fish and harming reef ecosystems. The state is home to more than 500 non-native species, but few as rampant in the wild as the marauding lionfish, which is fast-reproducing and has a voracious appetite. It preys on native fish such as yellowtail snapper, Nassau grouper and banded coral shrimp, and other crustaceans.
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Wild West beneath the waves?
In the crystal clear waters off the west coast of Scotland a hunt is under way.
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B.C. starfish are dissolving into goo, but why?
From Alaska to Mexico—and all along the B.C. coast—an iconic animal is disappearing. For reasons that remain baffling to scientists, starfish are dying by the millions, in the grips of a mysterious wasting disease that dissolves their bodies into goo. “I’d do beach walks along a 50-m stretch of shoreline, and count 500 or 1,000 of them,” says Chris Harley, a marine ecologist at the University of British Columbia who’s been monitoring sea stars (as scientists call them) for nearly two decades at
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Obama doubles global marine reserves
The US plans to create the world's biggest marine protected area (MPA) in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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New study improves measurements of the warming oceans
Heating of the oceans is, pardon the pun, a hot subject. There is a broad recognition that the oceans, which absorb approximately 90% of excess greenhouse gas energy, are key not only to how fast the planet will warm, but also how hot it will get in the end. Many recent studies have tried to measure deeper ocean regions or previously uncharted areas in the search for heat. A new study by Lijing Cheng and Jiang Zhu takes a different approach. They ask how large are biases in the estimates...
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Hunt for the Super Predator
There's a mysterious predator lurking in the depths of Australia's wild Southern Ocean, a beast that savagely devoured a great white shark in front of cinematographer David Riggs 11 years ago. Riggs's obsession to find the killer leads him to an aquatic battle zone that's remained hidden until now. Here, killer whales, colossal squid and great white sharks face off in an underwater coliseum where only the fiercest creatures of the marine world survive.
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Great white shark population is healthy and growing, new census shows
A new census study shows there are more than 2,400 white sharks off California and suggests that existing protective measures should be maintained because they are increasing the size and health of the population.
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World must act within five years to save oceans from pollution and overfishing: watchdog
The world’s oceans need saving from pollution and overfishing, and an independent panel warned on Tuesday that urgent action was needed within five years. The Global Ocean Commission said cutting down on single-use plastics products, restricting fishing on the high seas, and establishing binding regulations for offshore oil and gas exploration are key parts of the rescue plan.
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Oldest Animal-Built Reef Discovered in Namibia
Scientists have unearthed evidence for the oldest animal-built reef in the world, which was built by an ancient filter feeder called Cloudina some 550 million years ago.
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The U.S. Throws Out $1 Billion Worth of Unwanted Fish Every Year
Fisheries across the country chuck millions of dollars worth of scallops, halibut, red snapper, and other fish annually.
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What You Need to Know About the Coming Jellyfish Apocalypse
Calling all swimmers! Here's how to coexist with our gelatinous friends.
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