Humpback whale swims a quarter of the world

" In a record-breaking journey, a female humpback whale has travelled across a quarter of the globe, a distance of at least 10,000km. The event, reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, is the longest documented movement by a mammal. Its voyage was also twice...

Stealth Pool Parties: Run SIlent, Run Deep

Pool parties organized online and held in strangers' pools. ... Whoah. I've used Google Earth to find optimal parking spots downtown (just look for bikes in the aerial photos), but this is next-level.As a teen,...

Former Mempis police officers plead guilty to felony civil rights violations

"Trennis Swims and Harold McCall, both former officers with the Memphis Police Department ( MPD ), pleaded guilty today in federal court to felony civil rights charges. Swims and McCall are the latest former officers to either plead guilty or be indicted in the ongoing...

Great white shark introduced at Monterey Bay Aquarium

"A great white shark caught outside Santa Monica Bay has been introduced to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's massive Outer Bay exhibit, marking the second time in as many years the aquarium has attempted to keep one...

Scientists discover 1,200 types of venomous fish

"One moment he was reaching for the telephone, the next he was out cold.William Leo Smith, then a 20-year-old college student, woke up on the floor of the pet shop where he worked, blinking up at a ring of worried...

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