A CURATED COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FACTS AND DELICIOUS FICTIONS !

2/27/16

Here comes a COLOR BY NUMBER ART PROJECT from DOVER PUBLICATIONS! GET OUT YOUR COLORED PENCILS!

THIS IS THE COLOR CHART and the WAY THE PICTURES WILL LOOK IF YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS, matching your colored pencil closely to the chart.
This will give you a very realistic view of the sea life in the pictures.  But you can make your own color chart and see what happens!  I'll be posting the designs to be colored over the next week or so.

Siren

2/3/16

KINGDOM OF THE SEAHORSE - Recommended FILM by SIRENS LINK TO SEA

TOUR THEIR MAGICAL AND COMPLEX WORLD - a PBS FILM - Wonderful!



Here are some things to learn from this film

Seahorses have no teeth or stomach.
They live in coastal - shore areas all around the world - most every sea.

They are upright fish who use their tails to hold onto swaying sea grasses.

The male gives birth from a pouch, but he also fertilizes the eggs of the female.

They spend seven months breeding, and stick with the same partner.

Through that season they are faithful and so they do recognize each other as individuals.

See the film and learn about a unique scientific intervention that saved fishing and the seahorses.

1/9/16

ARE HAWAII's WHALES "MISSING" OR JUST FEEDING ELSEWHERE

WHALE WATCHING TOURISM is big in Hawaii, but what about the Hump Backed Whales.  Various articles suggest that they have died, or are feeding elsewhere because of the changes in water temperatures of the ocean due to Global Warming. 

INQUISITOR - MISSING WHALES - ALASKA DEATHS RELATED?

EXCERPT:

Hawaii’s humpback whales are missing in large numbers based upon early 2016 reports. Normally, beginning in early November, around 10,000 humpback whales travel from Alaska to Hawaii in order spend the winter in the warmer waters off the Hawaian islands. But, so far, officials at the Humpback Whale Marine Sanctuary say they have not been seeing the usual number of humpback whale sightings, making it a mystery to be solved. While it’s possible the El Nino weather patterns are a factor, earlier in the fall of 2015 other researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) noticed an alarming number of whale deaths near Alaska.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2679321/hawaii-humpback-whales-missing-in-2016-are-alaska-whale-deaths-related/#OajoED1ETQryOwgl.99

1/6/16

WAS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE A GENTLEMAN? HISTORY MAY HAVE BEEN REWRITTEN!

DAILY MAIL - UK - BLACKBEARD GENEROUS WITH HIS SIBLINGS  article by Richard Gray

EXCERPT:

Historian Baylus Brooks, who conducted the research with the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, also questions the validity of many of the exploits credited to the legendary pirate.
 
He argues many of the deeds attributed to Blackbeard, who became known by some as the King of Pirates, were misconceptions, or worse, made up entirely. ...
'The enormously successful pirate Edward Thache was not the notorious and villainous "Pirate King" Blackbeard - or Satan "from hell" as Mist wrote him to be,' explained Mr Brooke.
'He was an educated aristocrat, likely grandson of an Anglican minister trained at Oxford.
 
'His family in Spanish Town, Jamaica, owned an estate with slaves; they probably rode in their personal carriage to church and conversed with assemblymen and their families in the palace square.
'And he was a veteran...




12/27/15

DID YOU MISS THE FEEDING FRENZY OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA?

DAILY MAIL - HUMPBACK WHALES FEEDING OFF SOUTH AFRICAN COAST  go to this link to see videos of film taken from the sky of 60 plus eating fur seals and anything else in their path.  The seals look tiny next to their predator.

The pod was composed of humpbacks that came for miles...

12/23/15

HUNDREDS OF THE WORLDS LARGEST FISH - BASKING SHARKS - FEEDING OFF SCOTLAND

BBC NEWS SCOTLAND's BASKING SHARK - HUNDREDS   Worlds second largest fish...
They have no teeth and feed on microscopic plankton by opening wide their huge mouths.... 700 plus sightings in the last few months!