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Hibernating bumblebee queens surprisingly can survive underwater for days

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It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable to hazards like floods.

It turns out these bee queens are royally up to the task. In a serendipitous discovery, researchers have found that hibernating bumblebee queens can survive being submerged in water for up to a week.

Bee biologists Sabrina Rondeau and Nigel

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From fighting fish to haunting whale skeletons and swimming monkeys: The spellbinding winners of the 2024 Underwater Photographer of the Year revealed

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Explore new depths and immerse yourself in the beauty beneath the water’s surface through this breathtaking collection of images from Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.

The winners have been revealed for the annual contest, which gives a platform to awe-inspiring photography captured beneath the surface of oceans, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools.

This year, more than 6,500 underwater pictures were entered by photographers around the world, with scenes captured including two fish fighting with their mouths to a

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Gewinner des Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest 2023

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Die Bewertung des 12. jährlichen Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest, der vom Underwater Photography Guide organisiert wird, ist kürzlich abgeschlossen und die Gewinnerbilder und Fotografen wurden bekannt gegeben. Suliman Alatiqi wurde für das Bild eines krabbenfressenden Makaken auf Nahrungssuche auf den thailändischen Phi-Phi-Inseln als „Best in Show“ ausgezeichnet. Die Wettbewerbsorganisatoren haben erneut einige der unten aufgeführten Gewinner und ehrenvollen Erwähnungen aus 14 Kategorien bekannt gegeben. Die Bildunterschriften wurden von den einzelnen Fotografen verfasst und aus Stil- und Klarheitsgründen leicht bearbeitet.

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The real Atlantis? Incredible interactive map reveals the lost sunken cities around the world – from a ‘cursed’ town in Germany to an underwater pyramid in Japan

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For more than 2,000 years, the lost city of Atlantis has fascinated treasure hunters and explorers.

But despite countless theories and decades of searching, the lost city has remained stubbornly lost.

While Atlantis itself may be nothing more than a myth, archaeologists have uncovered real sunken cities all over the world.

From a ‘cursed’ town in Germany to a mysterious underwater pyramid in Japan, these drowned worlds may be even stranger than any legend.

So if you feel like hunting

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Matthew Perry was found UNDERWATER in hot tub by assistant who lifted his head out to try and get him oxygen – but Friends star was dead by time firefighters pulled him out

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Matthew Perry was found underwater in his hot tub by his assistant who lifted his head up to try to get him some air, first responders have revealed.

But by the time the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived at the Friends star’s Pacific Palisades home on Saturday and lifted him out of the jacuzzi, he was already dead.

The harrowing new details were revealed to the Los Angeles Times. An LAFD spokesman said: ‘An adult male patient was deceased prior

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Terrifying footage shows mom, 30, freediving into a VERY tight underwater tunnel in Florida – as she reveals holding her breath helps her to RELAX

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Nerve-racking footage captures a woman freediving through a very tight cave network, with the tunnel only just wide enough for her body to fit through.

In the 42-second-long clip, Tiffany Marie Owen, 30, from St. Petersburg, Florida, can be seen taking a breath before calmly plunging to the depths below in Ginnie Springs. 

With a GoPro in one hand, she uses her other hand to slowly guide her through the underwater obstacle course until she slips through the tunnel and

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The astonishing winners of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year awards revealed

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Water incredible selection of photographs.

The winners of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year awards have been revealed.

The awards give a platform to awe-inspiring photography captured beneath the surface of oceans, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools. And this year, over 6,000 pictures were entered by photographers from 72 countries. A heart-wrenching photograph of a dying humpback whale, a haunting photo of a shipwreck off the coast of Egypt and a vibrant picture of a langoustine in Scotland

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Who Is Kat From ‘The Bachelor’? Here’s How Far Zach’s Contestant Makes It After Their Romantic Underwater Date

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Since her underwater one-on-one date with Zach, fans have wanted to know more about Kat from The Bachelor 2023 and where she is now after Zach’s season.

Katherine Izzo was one of 30 contestants on The Bachelor season 27 with Zach Shallcross, a 26-year-old tech executive from Anaheim Hills, California, who now lives in Austin, Texas. Zach was a contestant on The Bachelorette season 19 with Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia, where he was Rachel’s contestant and self-eliminated in the final … Read more

Britain’s most amazing shipwrecks REVEALED: Underwater monuments to the UK’s rich maritime heritage 

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A whopping 350 years after it sank off the coast of Norfolk, authorities today revealed that HMS Gloucester has finally been found. 

The ‘outstanding’ ship, which sank on May 6, 1682 after hitting the Norfolk sandbanks in the southern North Sea, was uncovered 28 miles off the coast of Great Yarmouth half-buried on the seabed. 

But HMS Gloucester is just one of thousands of shipwrecks that litter the British coast, the majority of which haven’t been seen by the human

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Spinosaurus had dense bones for hunting underwater

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Measuring in at a massive 60ft long, Spinosaurus was the biggest predatory dinosaur that ever lived.

It even dwarfed the fearsome T. rex, but the way the carnivorous dinosaur hunted has long been a source of scientific debate. 

It is hard to guess the behaviour of an animal just from fossils; but based on its skeleton, some scientists have proposed that Spinosaurus could swim, while others think it just waded in the water like a heron.

Now a new study

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