Last living fish species desperately seeks mates
The Mangarahara cichlid, described as “gorgeously ugly”, is extinct in the wild, though London Zoo holds three males in captivity. The Zoo is desperately seeking female cichlids to prevent total extinction; and with 2 of the males being almost twelve years old, the need is urgent.
Chris Hadfield smiles through a water droplet on the ISS
NASA’s astronaut Chris Hadfield recently successfully returned to Earth after a 5-month stint on the Internal Space Station. Here’s Chris demonstrating the weird behaviour of water in environments absent of gravity.
If you thought Venus fly-traps were weird, here’s the Venus fly-trap anemone, that lives almost 5000 feet below sea level.
Retro visions of our underwater future
This image was published in the book Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (1954) as part of a collection of science-fiction imaginings. We’re not there yet, but soon?
High speed cameras capture ice-like waves
Photographer Pierre Carreau captured this stunningly detailed image for his AquaViva series - see more here: http://www.pierrecarreau.com/
Underwater skyscrapers?
As the available land space for building dwindles, could we take to building underwater? These dutch-designed structures-turned-underwater-cities could support about 6,000 people.
