Science
Elusive leopard kill 33 penguins at Stony Point
Betties Bays’ elusive but well-loved leopard created havoc at the African penguin colony at Stony Point last week. Social media buzzed with excitement...
Kitchen secrets of Ancient Mariner Cooks
The most reliable ships in the world in the 14th and early 15th century, and by far the biggest, were the Chinese junks.
An...
Annual aerial survey of southern right whales
The Mammal Research Institute’s Whale Unit (University of Pretoria) will be conducting their annual aerial survey of southern right whales from 29 September...
Beached dead whales can alter the ocean’s carbon footprint
Decades of whaling and fishing for the largest species have altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon.
An individual whale contains...
Shipwrecked French Champagne – Revealing tastes from the past
Scientists say that 170-year old champagne found on a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea actually tasted pretty good. The French...
Marine Tourism
Clouds that look like ocean waves. What is it?
Van Gogh clouds! Like breaking ocean waves.
They are called Kelvin Helmholzt clouds, aka billow clouds or shear-gravity clouds
It’s widely...
Mussel matchmaking and the glue that holds them
New research shows how mussels find the perfect match. For mussels, fertilization occurs between eggs and sperm that have been released into the...
Antifreeze Fish
Did you know there are fish whose bodies contain antifreeze, like the stuff that keeps a car’s cooling water from freezing? Many kinds...
#GreenXmas @intheOverberg
We are grateful to the champions @intheoverberg @WWFSouthAfrica @GoSocialSA @GoToSouthAfrica @ShotLeft who created a twitter #chat platform on 25 November where we could share...
Joanna- the earliest English shipwreck on the Cape coast
The Johanna was the first English East Indiaman to be wrecked on the South African coastline. She was an English East Indiaman of...
