Orcas return to Penn Cove for first time in 50 years
I saw some videos about this on TikTok and have been waiting to see any news coverage. But it's a pretty amazing thing to hear about given the story of Penn Cove and why the Orcas have avoided it for so long.
The article talks about their return and delves more into the awfulness of the Penn Cove massacre for the pod.
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"Researchers found a rare octopus nursery 2 miles below sea level"
To be honest, I wasn't going to post this as I skimmed my RSS feed until I saw the picture of the octopuses.
Researchers found Muusoctopus nursery grounds on a low-temperature hydrothermal vent off the shore of Costa Rica.
"The discovery of a new active octopus nursery over 2,800 meters beneath the sea surface in Costa Rican waters proves there is still so much to learn about our Ocean," Dr. Jyotika Virmani, executive director of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, said in a statement.
Scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica say they've discovered the world's third known octopus nursery.
When the Dorado Outcrop — an area roughly the size of a football field — was first discovered in 2013, researchers believed octopuses couldn't grow there because they didn't observe any developing embryos at the site.
Scientists said the discovery also indicated that some deep-sea octopus species brood their eggs in low-temperature hydrothermal vents, such as the one where the nursery was discovered, where fluid heated in the Earth's crust is released on the seafloor — like hot springs.
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"First 100,000 KG Removed From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
A fantastic bit of news from The Ocean Cleanup project.
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Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
I was about to call it a night but then I saw this news and fell down a rabbit hole.
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