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Drone video shows great white shark lurking near popular beaches in Maine, prompting police warning
Drone video showing a large great white shark near some of Maine’s most popular beaches has prompted police in one coastal town to issue a warning on Tuesday. The warning was issued just weeks after there were multiple great white sightings in an area of Maine where a woman was fatally attacked by a shark five years ago. Scarborough’s marine …
Read More »Great white shark seen near popular beaches in Maine
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Reports of a large great white shark near some of Maine’s most popular beaches have prompted police in one coastal town to issue a warning on Tuesday. Scarborough’s marine resource officer got word of the roughly 10- to 12-foot shark (over 3 meters) on Monday, police said. The shark was spotted in the area of Crescent Beach …
Read More »Deadly flesh-eating bacteria spread across beaches… as cases surge in terrifying rise
The threat posed by flesh-eating bacteria lurking on beaches and in rivers this summer is looming larger by the week, as cases climb into the double digits and deaths are following suit. Vibrio vulnificus eats away at tissues in the skin until they shrivel, turn black, and die, a condition called necrotizing fasciitis, requiring lengthy surgery to strip the dead …
Read More »Coronial inquest after Northern Beaches child with flu dies in hospital
A Northern Beaches kindergartener has tragically died at Northern Beaches Hospital this week after contracting influenza A (the flu). She had been discharged twice from Sydney Children’s Hospital earlier that day. A Northern Beaches Hospital spokesperson confirmed that the tragic death of the child, who we understand to be a six year old girl, will be subject to a Coronial …
Read More »‘Pebble’ beaches around young stars join together to form planets
A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that have resolved the existence of a huge abundance of centimeter-sized pebbles that will stick together and grow into planets around two young stars. “This is potentially enough to build planetary systems larger than our own solar system,” said Katie …
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