Beaches

Summer is here, which means it's time to visit everyone's favorite geological feature consisting of a strip of land covered in loose particles, existing exclusively alongside a body of water ! That's right, pack your trunks, cause today we're hitting the beach! 

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[Trivia Question]

Goose-scaring drones

https://www.livescience.com/39146-canada-geese-drone.html

[Fact Off]

Waterproof chemicals (PFASes) in tides 

https://www.inverse.com/science/sea-spray-is-toxic

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937518

https://massivesci.com/articles/pfas-chemical-ocean-mammals-fish-dolphins-wildlife/

Salish wooly dogs

https://monova.ca/senaqwila-wyss-on-the-salish-woolly-dogs/

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wool-and-the-people-who-love-them

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/a-woolly-tale

https://research.library.mun.ca/14680/1/thesis.pdf

https://www.science.org/content/article/native-american-blankets-made-dog-hair

[Ask the Science Couch]

Beached cetaceans (and orcas/catfish that intentionally strand themselves)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-do-whales-beach-themselves

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/whales-mass-stranding-australia/556400/

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/774692

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/salish-sea-killer-whales-have-a-surprising-new-way-of-hunting/

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z91-383  

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-catfish-that-strands-itself-to-kill-pigeons

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050840

[Butt One More Thing]

Lugworm casts made of sand

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lugworm-poos-and-the-secrets-they-hold.html

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/worms/lugworm