<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2010, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2010-03-22T06:15:05+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/117882/1/" /><id>117882</id><summary><![CDATA[Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach]]></summary><issued>2009-05-28T01:26:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-28T01:26:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A mammoth blue whale has washed up on a New Zealand beach. The 150-tonne female is covered in bites from great white sharks, but authorities say this may have happened after death.<br/>Due to size and accessibility issues, the carcass will be left on the beach to rot. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/819035/blue-whale-washes-up-in-nz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">4 PICS</a>]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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A carpet of the dead creatures covered hundreds of yards of the beach at Pegwell Bay near Sandwich.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pictured: The 8ft giant lego man who washed up on the beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80624/1/" /><id>80624</id><summary><![CDATA[Pictured: The 8ft giant lego man who washed up on the beach]]></summary><issued>2008-10-30T08:27:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-30T08:27:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mystery today surrounded a giant Lego man which has washed up on a beach after apparently floating all the way from the Netherlands.<br/><br/>Check out the giant's translated site (from Dutch) <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.egoleonard.nl%2Fego.html&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sl=nl&amp;tl=en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Head of the humpback (NSFW &amp; gross)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31283/1/" /><id>31283</id><summary><![CDATA[Head of the humpback (NSFW &amp; gross)]]></summary><issued>2007-08-12T17:30:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-12T17:30:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparently, dismantling a dead humpback whale on the beach is a lot harder than it seems.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blue Bottle Jellyfish]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30036/1/" /><id>30036</id><summary><![CDATA[Blue Bottle Jellyfish]]></summary><issued>2007-08-03T08:15:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-03T08:15:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This jellyfish is known as the blue bottle, due to its colour and shape when strewn on a beach. The blue bottles tentacles can range up to 10 metres in length! More info <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.faunanet.gov.au/wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=11" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Baring your all on the Jersey Shore!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17170/1/" /><id>17170</id><summary><![CDATA[Baring your all on the Jersey Shore!]]></summary><issued>2007-04-20T11:41:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-20T11:41:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gunnison Beach located on Sandy Hook,NJ is managed by the National Park Service. <br/><br/>It is, by custom, the only nude beach in New Jersey, and one of the major clothing-optional recreation areas in the New York metropolitan area.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beach on Fire]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51139/1/" /><id>51139</id><summary><![CDATA[Beach on Fire]]></summary><issued>2008-02-18T17:59:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-18T17:59:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Remember the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/47804/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">2000 tons of timber</a> that washed up on the beach in my town?  Not entirely unpredictably someone set fire to a load of it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blue Angels at Seattle Seafair]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40822/1/" /><id>40822</id><summary><![CDATA[Blue Angels at Seattle Seafair]]></summary><issued>2007-11-06T15:22:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-06T15:22:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Blue <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Angels</a> at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virgina Beach VA.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[24-Foot Shark Washes Up on L.I. Beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/127728/1/" /><id>127728</id><summary><![CDATA[24-Foot Shark Washes Up on L.I. Beach]]></summary><issued>2009-07-14T16:46:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-14T16:46:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 24-foot shark washed ashore on a Long Island beach today, but died a short time later.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Whale harpooned in front of whale-watching tourists]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33352/1/" /><id>33352</id><summary><![CDATA[Whale harpooned in front of whale-watching tourists]]></summary><issued>2007-08-27T20:51:05+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-27T20:51:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Eco-tourists on a whale-watching vessel, looking forward to observing the mighty creatures in their natural habitat, were instead greeted by the sight of a harpooned whale being dragged in by a Japanese whaling vessel on Friday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bizarre Animal Washes up on Beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70661/1/" /><id>70661</id><summary><![CDATA[Bizarre Animal Washes up on Beach]]></summary><issued>2008-07-30T15:57:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-30T15:57:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;We don't to panic anyone, but a minion of Satan just washed up on a beach in Montauk, New York. The beast looks a bit like a dog with the sharp beak of an eagle, or possibly a shell-less turtle with the dark eyes of a griffin. Either way, it's definitely a portent of the coming apocalypse.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Giant Dr Who-like monster stuns sunbathers after it washes up on Welsh beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129872/1/" /><id>129872</id><summary><![CDATA[Giant Dr Who-like monster stuns sunbathers after it washes up on Welsh beach]]></summary><issued>2009-08-04T08:11:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-04T08:11:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A mysterious 'alien like' creature horrified holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower peninsula.<br/><br/>The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured 3ft from end to end, was described by a zoology expert today as 'like something out of Doctor Who'.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blue Beer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/128485/1/" /><id>128485</id><summary><![CDATA[Blue Beer]]></summary><issued>2009-07-20T19:21:14+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-20T19:21:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's made of icebergs in Japan, it's blue and it's beer, apparently.<br/><br/>And it says &quot;draft&quot; on the bottle...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blue Whales Heard Off New York]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/119189/1/" /><id>119189</id><summary><![CDATA[Blue Whales Heard Off New York]]></summary><issued>2009-06-01T18:15:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-01T18:15:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Blue Whales have been heard singing off the coast of Long Island - a long way from their regular territory.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[194 Whales and 6 Dolphins Beached in Tasmania]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/97204/1/" /><id>97204</id><summary><![CDATA[194 Whales and 6 Dolphins Beached in Tasmania]]></summary><issued>2009-03-02T10:54:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-02T10:54:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rescuers used jet skis, backhoes and human muscle to save dozens of whales and dolphins stranded on a beach in southern Australia.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The first blue Busy Lizzie is here - all the way from secret Himalayan valley]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/42685/1/" /><id>42685</id><summary><![CDATA[The first blue Busy Lizzie is here - all the way from secret Himalayan valley]]></summary><issued>2007-11-28T03:09:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-28T03:09:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As one of Britain's favourite garden flowers, the Busy Lizzie has bloomed in almost every colour ... except blue.  The explorers, botanists Yuan Yong-Ming and Ge Xue-Juan, found a sapphire blue version of the flower while exploring the 16,600ft-deep Namchabarwa Canyon in Tibet four years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lara Croft Opens Women-Only Beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/25432/1/" /><id>25432</id><summary><![CDATA[Lara Croft Opens Women-Only Beach]]></summary><issued>2007-06-27T22:15:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-27T22:15:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As a P.R. thing for Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Eidos had the &quot;real&quot; Lara Croft (Karima Adebibe) open a women-only beach in Italy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Creepy Beach Sculptures To Scare Off Sunbathers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/87513/1/" /><id>87513</id><summary><![CDATA[Creepy Beach Sculptures To Scare Off Sunbathers]]></summary><issued>2009-01-03T10:56:07+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-03T10:56:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For most people the beach is a place to relax, especially when visited as part or a holiday. So it seems surprising that on some beaches around the world, artists have been chosen to display some of the creepiest structures known to man that are sure to traumatise the most hardened of tourists, especially at a time when the defenses are down.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Digging In Beach Sand Increases Risk Of Gastrointestinal Illness]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/127410/1/" /><id>127410</id><summary><![CDATA[Digging In Beach Sand Increases Risk Of Gastrointestinal Illness]]></summary><issued>2009-07-11T17:54:03+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-11T17:54:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Children and adults who build castles and dig in the sand at the beach are at greater risk of developing gastrointestinal diseases and diarrhea than people who only walk on the shore or swim in the surf, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Environmental Protection Agency.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Massive squid washes up on Tasmanian beach]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26961/1/" /><id>26961</id><summary><![CDATA[Massive squid washes up on Tasmanian beach]]></summary><issued>2007-07-11T10:17:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-11T10:17:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A squid as long as a bus has washed up on a beach on the west coast of Tasmania.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why Whales Beach Themselves: It&#8217;s The Bends!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/122742/1/" /><id>122742</id><summary><![CDATA[Why Whales Beach Themselves: It&#8217;s The Bends!]]></summary><issued>2009-06-14T17:02:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-14T17:02:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Why do whales beach themselves? A new study may have answered the question that baffled scientists for decades: it&#8217;s the bends &#8230;<br/><br/>    A new study offers evidence to support the theory that beaked whales get the bends when they surface rapidly, possibly after being startled by naval sonar.]]></content></entry></feed>