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Dangerous Animals. In this new film, the leading character, Captain Tucker runs a shark-diving boat off Australia's Gold Coast, taking tourists for an underwater view of the dangerous animals. The film kicks off with an eager couple looking for an adventure, but one soon realizes the dangerous animal is indeed Captain Tucker. And how wicked he is. This fast-paced, spine-tingling horror film, well-cast and with an arthouse patina, is no conventional shark diving tale. It's a below-decks horror story, and if that's your genre, you'll be on a dive boat from hell. Rotten Tomatoes says 86 percent of the critics give it a positive rating. Dangerous Animals is streaming on Amazon Prime and elsewhere.

Blue Whales Sound the Heatwave Alarm. Scientists are sounding the alarm over an unsettling change in the oceans: blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, are going quiet. Two major studies, published in Nature, tracked blue whale calls linked to feeding and mating in two distinct locations: one in New Zealand's South Taranaki Bight between 2016 and 2018, and another in the California Current Ecosystem from 2015 to 2020. Both found stretches of reduced singing, especially during marine heatwave years when krill, the whales' primary food, became scarce. With fewer feeding opportunities, whales devoted more energy to foraging and less to reproductive calls, suggesting that climate-driven disruptions in ocean food webs are directly altering whale behavior....

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