Friday, May 23, 2014

Friday Randomness (Nature Edition)

Every Friday, I'll post some links and videos to get you through the weekend!

Let's start off beautiful, with this time-lapse video of coral and sponges opening up:
Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo.

Here are some epic pictures of natural phenomena, with links to the explanation underneath most of them.



And we've talked about evolution before, but check out this explanation of the independent evolutions of the eye in squids and humans!

Great white sharks might be the scariest killer for most people, but these orcas know how to immobilize them by flipping them over, and then they eat their livers. Lots of cool videos in that link :)

Not how you thought this interaction would go, eh?




And finally, climate change is affecting sea turtles in a very unusual way: scientists have found that if water temperatures are too warm, only female sea turtles will hatch, making the extinction of the species inevitable if the oceans continue to heat up.


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