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Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, but looks for historic shipwrecks on his Research Vessel Petrel in his spare time. He has found the Japanese battleship Musashi, the Italian destroyer Artigliere, and the USS’s Indianapolis, Astoria, and Ward. His latest discovery is the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier. It sank in the Coral Sea 76 years ago!
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Australian George Corones may have won because he was racing alone, but the 99 year-old swam the 50 meter freestyle in 56 seconds, smashing the record for his age group. He turns 100 in April, so he got to compete in the 100-104 age bracket. George took up swimming for exercise when he turned 80.
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Okay, Nutella fans, here’s your chance to witness a world record! In Sydney Australia tomorrow, a line of pancakes covered in Nutella hazelnut spread will form a giant heart. They hope it will be the longest line of pancakes at over 164 feet long. If you are there, you can help eat it all up!
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254 people in Queensland Australia broke the world record for the largest aqua aerobics class. The Bundamba Swim Centre hosted the class and students’ fees raised funds for the Ipswich Hospital Foundation. It’s summer in Australia, so dancing to “YMCA” in the pool was a great way to exercise in the heat!
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Taronga Zoo in Sydney Australia has over 20 baby feathertail gliders! Also known as pygmy glider possums, 12 gliders were pregnant at once and the joeys have all emerged from their mothers’ pouches. The marsupials are so quick and tiny that zoo officials can’t quite count them. Adults are less than 3 inches long!
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Crows are clever birds. They like to solve problems and some can even talk. Australian crows have figured out how to eat poisonous cane toads! They learned that the poison oozes from the toad’s back, so they flip them over carefully and eat from the belly. With 200 million toads around, they’ll get their fill!
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Australia’s got a little something stuck to its face. It’s a 1.7 billion year-old piece of North America! Geologists found that the sandstone in the Georgetown region of Australia matched rocks in Canada. They believe all the continents merged 1.6 billion years ago to form a supercontinent, Nuna. When they separated, that piece remained.
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Seven years ago, Rick Anderson made an unusual friend. He was diving in New South Wales Australia when he met a 6 inch long shark pup that let him pet her. The Port Jackson shark is 6 feet long now and she’ll tap Rick on the legs until he gives her a hug!
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Researchers discovered a group of 26 volcanoes near Australia that looks like Mordor! But any Hobbits trying to journey there would have to be good swimmers. The volcanoes are underwater! The Bight Basin Igneous Complex is 35 million years old and buried under 820 feet of sediment, so ultrasound-like images were created using 3D seismic reflection.
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Australian 16 year-old Jade Hameister just became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole! Her feat also finished the Polar Hat Trick and set multiple records. She had completed the Greenland Crossing and trekked to the North Pole at age 14. Jade also became the first woman to ski a new uncharted route!
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