Ocean wonder

“A spiral UFO” is how Nerida Wilson described what’s thought to be the longest sea creature ever seen. Wilson is a senior research scientist at the Western Australian Museum. She was on a research expedition in the deep waters of the Gascoyne Coast Bioregion off Western Australia when she and her colleagues saw a deep-sea predator called a siphonophore. The siphonophore, a colonial organism that looks like a long string in the water, was about 150 feet (46 metres) long. “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” Wilson told The Guardian. She and the other scientists also discovered up to 30 new marine species during the expedition.

The sound of glass milk bottles clinking outside the front door in the early morning is something many British people remember from their childhood days. In the 1980s, most families in Britain still had milk delivered to their homes, but now, almost everyone buys their milk from a supermarket — at least until Covid-19 arrived. Corona has meant that milk delivery firms like The Modern Milkman are enjoying an enormous increase in customers. Co-founder Simon Mellin told www.nottinghampost.com about the original inspiration for his company: “The idea was born from David Attenborough’s Blue Planet programme, which focused on the plight of plastics in our oceans.” Now, his company has been getting up to 1,200 new customers a day and is making 50,000 deliveries of milk, meat, fruit and vegetables a week. He thinks people will continue to have their milk delivered after the pandemic ends. “The lockdown is going to change the way people shop forever,” he told the BBC.