Plus, cats on the sea; rising water levels; ancient hair samples; monkeyflower superblooms
|  | Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | | | | |
 | | ARTWORK BY PIERRE DENYS DE MONTFORT | | Let’s get Kraken. The mythological giant octupus or squid (illustrated above) presumably lurking in the ocean between Norway and Greenland, was said to rise to devour any ship foolish enough to get in its way.
Scientists and adventurers have searched for such creatures in the deep—megamouth sharks, Japan’s umibozu, merpeople, lake monsters—and discovered beings like the dinosaur-era coelacanth, still among us. What else have they found? What are they still hunting for?
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 | | ARTWORK BY UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI | | | A different monster: This eerie image by Edo-period Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicts the umibozu rising from the sea. Depicted with a giant dark head with prominent eyes, legend says the monster creates brooding stormclouds and causes a storm in otherwise calm seas. Read more. | | | |
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It keeps coming: Our seas have absorbed more than 90 percent of the heat from greenhouse gases we've put in the atmosphere. Part of the result? Rising sea levels, which can cause devastating effects (pictured above, flooding from a high tide in Kiribati). New studies show higher-than-expected sea rises along parts of the U.S. coast.
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| | A giant spiral: Without a moon in the night sky this week, use the Big Dipper to guide you toward to a pair of bright galaxies. Binoculars and backyard telescopes easily reveal the giant spiral galaxy of Messier 81 and the cigar-shaped Messier 82. Both appear to ride the back of the great bear constellation, Ursa Major. The two islands of stars lie about 12 million light years from Earth. Meanwhile, at dawn Sunday, early risers looking toward the east will witness a pairing between the crescent moon and yellow-hued planet Saturn in the constellation Aquarius. — Andrew Fazekas
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The hills are alive! California’s rain has this spring poised to be filled with superblooms—including the playful-looking monkeyflower above. Some already have begun. Where can you find these fields of flowers? And how many species can you spot?
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ASOME-UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA | | | |
Today's soundtrack: Evan Finds The Third Room, Khruangbin
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