World’s smallest aquarium.
The world’s smallest aquarium measures 30x24x14mm and holds only 10ml of water. For reference, 5ml is one teaspoon, so the aquarium can only hold two teaspoons worth of water.
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Dolphin leaps out of a tank.
Tourists watched in horror as a dolphin leapt out of a tank during a performance at an aquarium in Japan. The event was captured on camera by an American visitor to the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium on July 4.
Paul the psychic octopus
Paul the “psychic” octopus, who has become a global star after correctly forecasting all six of Germany’s World Cup games, will predict the final, but only if his hefty workload has not exhausted him.
A young diver in China owes her life to a Beluga Whale, like the one pictured above. Belugas have an affinity for humans, but Mila the whale took the relationship to a new level at the Polar Land Aquarium in Harbin, North East China. Yang Yun was competing in a free-dive competition there, hoping to land a job training whales. As one of seven finalists, Yang intended to dive as deep as she could in the icy water of the aquarium’s tanks without any diving gear. As she ran out of breath and prepared to resurface, leg cramps prevented her ascent.
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This bizarre sea creature looks happy with its lot in life as it appears to be smiling broadly.
The rarely photographed piglet squid was captured on film at a rescue aquarium. Its tentacles and skin patterns have formed an adorable shape of a small smiling face with what looks like curly locks on his head.
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Mathematicians in Manchester are hoping electric fish can give them clues to solving a fiendishly complex mathematical problem – which could in turn lead to better treatment for patients with lung problems.
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It is expected that the proposed enormous oceanarium in Moscow will form part of an amusement complex complete with a cinema, hotel, business center, shopping mall and many restaurants. According to news sources, the Eurasian country of Kazakhstan, which is the world’s largest landlocked country, is financing the construction of one of the new oceanarium.
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Google is famous for providing it’s workforce with a wide variety of amenities to it’s workforce in order to bring in talented employees and keep them working harder and longer. Google innovations keep office work from being drab & boring. (Pics)
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As phone booths continue down their inexorable path to extinction, artists think of other, more aesthetically pleasing ways to use the endangered glass cubicles. “Why not just install a soothing, blood-pressure-lowering aquarium inside that ugly old phone booth,” French artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino might have said. And that’s just what they did, installing their art piece smack dab in the middle of the Lyon Festival of Lights.
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No I’m not talking about a boring trip to the Aquarium or an episode of the Sopranos. No what I am referring to … is literally “sleeping with the fishes”. When one thinks about the future of travel, one might conjure up gaining passage on a rocket ship into space, the final frontier. Or that the honeymoons of the 21st century might actually entail a trip to the moon! Yes, yes… in all due course… I am sure that eventuality will happen. But what about exhausting the many unique features of terra firma before we actually decide to leave the planet? What about exploring the deep blue seas?
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Some aquariums are just too cool for words. View more pics…
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