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Decompression depression Apr 9 2008
Hatched turtle eggs?
No. Imploded ping pong balls. Another one of my “home-cooked” inventions went wrong yesterday as I landed on the sand next to the Black Coral tree in 30m (98ft) of water off Sodwana bay.
Tags: africa, black, camera, coral, crew, ping pong, ping pong ball, rare, sand, sodwana, tree, turtle, waterThe week’s most viewed stories Mar 7 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 29 February to Thursday 06 March 2008) were:
Tags: aliwal shoal, blue, camouflage, cave, coast, fish, food, kwazulu-natal, ray, reef, sand, scorpionfish, south africa, swim, turtle, water, whaleWildlife news from around the world
Secrets of Antarctic superglue Feb 14 2008
Single-celled ocean organisms build sophisticated shells using a super-effective underwater adhesive – and absorb carbon in the process.
Tags: adhesive, antarctic, carbon, foodchain, foram, foraminifera, glue, ocean, organism, sam bowser, sand, single-cell, superglueFirst find your turtle Jan 30 2008
I had grand visions of all the turtles I was going to find and film for Earth-Touch in southern Mozambique. I’d decided to walk a 5km (3mi) stretch every night and guessed that, according to the law of averages, I’d be onto an egg-laying leatherback or loggerhead turtle every three nights.
What happened to the skimmers? Oct 10 2007
Much to everyone’s surprise, the migratory African skimmers have already left the sandbank at Nxamaseri in the Okavango Delta, where they were nesting and attempting to raise their chicks. This abrupt departure brings to an end a spectacularly unsuccessful season for the endangered birds.
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