New 60-Mile Pumice Raft Could Help Restore Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

“A huge raft of pumice created by an underwater volcano is floating toward Australia, and it could help the Great Barrier Reef recover from bleaching,” reports Weather.com: The pumice raft is about 60 square miles — almost as big as Washington D.C. Scientists say it was formed earlier this month by an underwater volcano near Tonga, some 2,000 miles east of…

The strangest crab that has ever lived

Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs. It’s a 95-million-year-old extinct species that, scientists say, will force us to rethink the definition of a crab. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/callichimaera-perplexa-strangest-extinct-crab…