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In 1949, researchers testing underwater acoustics off Bermuda lowered an early recording system into the water and kept the unexplained sounds it picked up. Seventy-seven years later they were identified as what may be the oldest preserved recording of a whale singing, made before scientists understood humpback whale song.
Young fish are dropped from a small airplane over Utah's mountain lakes, poured out of one tank divided into seven chambers so the fish fall the last stretch through open air. More than 300 lakes inaccessible by vehicle are stocked this way each year, a practice Utah has used since 1956.
In 1869, a French entomologist trying to breed a hardier silkworm let a batch of moth larvae escape his Massachusetts yard. Twenty years later they had defoliated 360 square miles nearby, and the species can still strip a million acres in a single bad year.
A pond in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression has a measured salinity of 433 grams per kilogram — roughly twelve times saltier than the open ocean and saltier than the Dead Sea — sitting inside one of the hottest, most hostile landscapes on the planet
