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Healthy food for your little superheroes

February 23, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Looking for a way to encourage your family to eat healthy food? There’s plenty of superhero action on the cinema screen, TV and Netflix these days so perhaps these superheroes could help out? Fish is the Dish, a site from the Sea Fish Industry Authority, is here to help. They’ve put together some superhero sea […]

Most of the water on Earth is actually alien

January 28, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Unlike the other planets in our solar system Earth’s surface is about 70% water. Why is that? Shouldn’t the sun have dried out all the water long ago? As it turns out our water is alien. We’ve Carbonaceous Chondrites from beyond the frost line to thank. In Pure Spirit What do you make of the […]

Incredible photographs show nature reclaim a transport ship with a floating forest

January 15, 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

In Homebrush Bay, Sydney, Australia you can see a remarkable floating forest. The remains of an abandoned transport ship, a 1911 steam collier, is slowly being overgrown by a forest. Humankind has helped. From 2008 to 2010 there was an effort to remove chemicals from Homebush. These incredible photographs come from Bruce Hood, Andy Brill […]

Explore the ancient Egyptian city found beneath the waves

January 13, 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

Two years ago the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion was found below the waves in the Abu Qir Bay. Just off the coast of Egypt but lost for hundreds of years, scientists had no idea what they would found. Thonis-Heracleion was founded around the 8th century BC and after a series of natural disasters it vanished […]

Is plastic confetti killing our oceans?

January 11, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

We all know that large collections of plastic are harmful and a problem in the ocean. As it turns out that micro-plastics are just as dangerous even if it is much harder to track their effect. This useful video from Minute Earth has notched up over half a million views in half a year. Do […]

North Carolina beach complete with a shark feeding frenzy

January 10, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

If you’re just walking along the sand, the breaking waves washing against your feet would you end up in the middle of a shark feeding frenzy? You could. This video shows the shore of a beach in North Carolina host more than 100 sharks. The sharks were caught in a feeding frenzy, chomping their way […]

The strange salt cube natural phenomenon of the Dead Sea

January 4, 2015 by Andrew 3 Comments

Isn’t it remarkable? Normally the waves round down stones over time. That’s where sand comes from. In this case we’ve square salt cubes washing up. Salt would normally dissolve in water. Cubes caught in waves wouldn’t keep their straight edges for long. In Pure Spirit Have you ever been to the Dead Sea? What was […]

Did fishermen really find a dragon skeleton in the Chinese Sea?

December 27, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELu3MfiPco8 According to the Japanese news site Byoukan Sunday there is debate as to whether this is a strange discovery or a hoax. The find is dated March 2013 and was apparently made by a Chinese fisherman. As the Japanese newspaper points out the bones are rather perfect for a washed up skeleton, though. Could […]

Pelican wave dive bombs the beach

August 28, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Not a good time to be a fish. I wouldn’t have wanted to have been swimming just in the patch of shore that this flock of pelicans took notice of either! This remarkable video shows a rolling wave of dive bombing birds as they plunge into the breaking waves in search of a fishy treat. […]

The monstrous body of a two-headed dolphin

August 12, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The shocking corpse of a strange two-headed dolphin was found by a school teacher on holiday in Turkey. The Telegraph reports how Turgul Metin described making his discovery. “I noticed the dolphin in the sea and watched as it washed on to the beach. “I couldn’t take it in at first, I thought my eyes […]

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