ocean life.

How stupid do you want to feel this morning? I'll admit it: I've never in my life solved a Rubik's Cube. To be fair, I've probably spent a lifetime total of about five minutes trying to figure them out. Still, it's a little bit infuriating to watch this sea insect complete the puzzle handily. But no, of course this video isn't real. A shrimp can't actually solve a Rubik's Cube. This is just some amateur filmmaker's way of having some fun with basic camera trickery. Still, find a friend who's in the midst of a futile Cube attempt and show them this clip. Watch them blow their top. ...

by Sea Stachura NOAA National Ocean Service, Flickr Nurdles are not friends of the kids' character Barney, or a sister product of Floam, but they are equally synthetic. Nurdles are the tiny plastic pieces that are used in molds to create everything from plastic packaging to doll's heads. So small are these oblong bits of plastic that they often fall through the cracks and out the doors of the trucks and factories that use them. They end up in the ocean. Shrimp, turtles, lobsters, fish and birds have all ingested these little plastic pieces thinking they were food. But plastic is indigestible, so smaller creatures like shrimp and bass die from constipation and starvation. if they are ...