These mice sure can rip. Watch them pull off some sweet floaters . . . one even scores a nice cover-up.
You gotta throw these guys a big shaka for a) coming up with the idea to make a video of mice surfing waves and 2) following through on the idea.
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Here’s a story about some dolphins that scientists trained to sing the the theme song to the original Batman.
Surfers are in close proximity to stingrays 
all the time. I see them
darting around the shallows when I’m getting in and out of the water. And when the water is clear, I can see them cruising along the bottom when I’m out in the lineup. It’s always a little nerve-racking when you see the sillouhette of a big stingray slowly passing right underneath you. I typically try to take comfort knowing that stingrays are docile creatures and only sting when provoked.
I figure now is as good a time as any to go over the basic rules of living with stingrays:
Yesterday in Florida a 5 ft, 30 lb stingray jumped out of the water and into an 81 yr-old man’s boat and stabbed him in the chest. According to this article the man seems to be doing OK, though open heart surgery may be necessary in order to remove a piece of the stingray barb that’s stuck inside him. The stingray died.
That is really extraordinary, especially so soon after Steve Irwin’s fatal encounter with a stingray last month.
Don’t be surprised when Hollywood comes out with a Jawsesque stingray franchise film.
Not all seafood is good for you. In fact, some seafood can actually be bad for you and the environment. Here’s a cool guide that tells you how eco-friendly your favorite type of seafood is. The guide also indicates whether there is a health advisory for each species. Pretty nifty.
Until now scientists had identified and named about 5,000 different marine microbes, but a recent survey suggests that there could be over 100 times that amount living in our oceans. Using a DNA probe marine biologists found 20,000 microbes living in a single liter of seawater.
"A swimmer taking just a swallow of seawater may be consuming an entire zoo of 1,000 different forms of bacteria. That is how it seems the mysterious microbial world operates."
The inside of the average surfer’s body must be a veritable zoo.
I love it when a plan comes together. Teeka Tan Products, a company that produces sun care products, and SharkDefense, a R&D company that focuses on chemical shark repellent technologies, are teaming up to produce a single lotion that not only protects humans against the sun’s harmful rays, but from sharks, too. Teeka also offers a lotion that they claim inhibits jellyfish stings.
It’s good to know someone’s working on capitalizing on people’s anxiety and at the same time actually trying to mitigate some of the risks that come along with playing in the ocean.
It’ll be interesting to see how well this stuff works…
No joke. Officials at Southern California’s Wildlife Care Center detained four pelicans under suspicion of being drunk in public. Apparently one of the drunk birds struck the windshield of a car while the other three were suspiciously wandering the streets of Laguna Beach.
Although results of toxicology tests will not be ready for several weeks, experts believe the pelicans to have been under the influence of domoic acid, a naturally occurring toxin that can be found in algae blooms and shellfish.
Keep your eyes peeled for any odd bird behavior. If you notice any seabirds acting rambunctious or reckless or hitting on other birds that are extraordinarily fat & ugly, then call your local IBRRC office - no doubt they can always stand to be busier.
Read for yourself: http://www.livescience.com/othernews/ap_060625_drunk_pelican.html