It’s been found that discarded tires lying on the seabed are death traps for hermit crabs. They climb into the tyres but can’t get out because the walls are concave. It’s as simple as that. I suppose they climb into them for protection but it …
This is a bit of fun and it is about the animal-human relationship in a strict sense! I just like the expression on Vincent Price’s face. It makes a good screenshot image which hopefully catches the eye on the Internet. The repeating .gif video is …
The Times reports today (Oct 11, 2021) that undersea electricity cables cause brown crab to sit still. It seems that the electromagnetic field around the cables, which is about 5% of the power of a fridge door magnet, mesmerises them, and because they sit still, …
After seven years of thinking and research, Zhi-Ming Yuan, has figured out why ducklings swim in a neat, nicely spaced row behind their mother. It is not just about ducklings sticking close to their mother for protection, it’s about hard science. They are using a …
Some of the Reddit comments: In soviet Russia canned fish eats you! Looks like that fish came from Chernobyl. SOME MORE ON MARINE WILDLIFE:
The words in the title are those of Justin Webb, 41, on Twitter. He is a charity worker and vegan. He took a photo of a baby octopus wrapped up in cellophane, for sale for 36p and posted it on Twitter saying: “36p for a …
The teeth are remarkably like a human’s. This fish was apparently spotted by some beachgoers in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. The picture is published on Jeannette’s Pier via Facebook entitled “Fish with terrifying teeth”. As you might expect the fish is named after …
People ask whether blue lobsters are poisonous, real or rare and even whether they are expensive. Lobsters are blue because of a genetic variation or mutation which is believed to affect 1 in about 2 million lobsters. A certain celebrity blue lobster is in the …
The Times reports that fish can become addicted to drugs like people. Dr. Pavel Horky, from Prague, in the Journal of Experiment Biology, tells us that where you have meth users their drug gets into the water and brown trout show all the signs of …
