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texas a little song by morgan as well but we are glad youre here. we are assuming rachel will be here soon. because it tells to stick with the shop because we love her so much we hope shes listening. we are honest with the audience or ants will and nine. not just a shot of delta back to the capitol. >> all of it isnt chinese supply balloon is evacuate a highlighter and a sharpie. [laughter] thats all that less. that would be what would be laughed at. >> speaking too much about the ball...

Herbicides and pesticides wash downriver from farms and towns – and some of these chemicals are taken up by oysters.

News 3 anchor Pari Cruz recently got off the anchor desk and spent time with some Portsmouth students out at Portsmouth City Park.

High competition for food means evolving unique feeding methods.

The earliest development of jaws was an improvement over filter feeders, allowing more food to be available.

Researchers have discovered that the Antarctic seabed is teeming a rich community of sea creatures. The marine organisms – trapped under the ice for five decades – came to light after an iceberg [...]

What better way to get them over the dam? >> looks like a wild ride. originally designed for fruit. but someone got the idea -- >> 15, 22 miles an hour. 100 feet, like a fish slip and slide. >> i have a giant fish, whale shark of a story coming up next. two fishermen off the coast of the atlantic ocean spear fishing. they got the surprise of their lives. look at this shark. >> look at that thing. >> you can hear underwater gasps from one of the divers. the other one, he decides to just try and g...

Island whe they come across a 30-foot, 50,000 pound whale shark. i dont think theyre vicious. who cares? he decides, what am i going to do here? im going to hop into the water with the 30-foot beast, and im going to ride around with it. thats him grabbing the nose of a whale shark that could suck him in and not remember he did it 20 seconds later, which is ñow long the guy stayed on top. obviously, the whale shark didnt hurt him, but they did see a couple of other predators and got back into th...

To depths of 1,800 feet. into an underwater geography known to few, like the terrorists and the sticky grounds. here deep in the gulf of mexico where more eels and lionback turtles the size of small cars live there is cautiouses optimism. so far the marine biologists on this mission have found no visible signs of oil. you havent seen a large underwater plume of oil yet. >> no, thankfully. >> what about the microscopic pieces of oil floating in the gulf? >> we have not seen them yet. they have sp...

Back turtles the size of small cars live, there is cautious optimism. so far the marine biologists on this mission have found no visible signs of oil. >> you havent seen a large underwater plume of oil yet? >> no, thankfully. >> what about those little microscopic pieces of oil floating in the gulf? >> we havent seen though yet and those are very hard to detect. >> reporter: to determine if specks of oil too hard to see have spread this far, the submersible and another unmanned collection contai...