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8-year-old reels in piranha at Ridley Park Lake in Delaware County, Pennsylvania: “It was pretty crazy”

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Piranha resting on a muddy rainforest riverbank

It was a piranha out of water and way out of place. Saturday was no ordinary fishing trip for Seamus Coffey and his dad, Michael. They were at Ridley Park Lake when the young angler reeled in a catch he won’t soon forget. “I caught two catfish,” Seamus said. The 8-year-old Seamus says he normally baits his line with string and a hot dog. He was fishing Saturday at Ridley Park Lake with his dad when he felt a tug. “He thought it was a bass at first because we usually catch little catfish,” Michael Coffey said. “So he’s reeling it, reeling it, reeling it and then when I saw it, what did I say? I said, ‘Slow down, dude, you might lose it.’ This looks like something we haven’t caught before, like a big bluegill or something.” “I’m reeling it in and I’m thinking it’s a bass,” Seamus said. “He got it on the ground and I was like, ‘It’s a bluegill, I don’t know what this is,’ and he said it’s a piranha,'” Michael Coffey said.

The Coffeys have fished here for years. Young Seamus seemed to know exactly what he was looking at. “Because I watch YouTube,” he said. “Remember, I Google imaged it, and I was like, ‘Dude, it’s a red-bellied piranha,'” Michael Coffey said. “It was pretty crazy.” Officials with Pennsylvania’s Fish and Boat Commission said this was likely someone’s pet until things got out of control at home. It was also explained that the person likely believed they were doing the right thing by placing a piranha in the lake. “Some of our folks have determined that this is certainly a species of piranha,” Mike Parker with the Fish and Boat Commission said. “And that person no longer wanted their pet and then unlawfully introduced it into the waterway.” Coffey said at first he put the native South American fish back in the lake but then thought twice. “Basically have to get rid of it for the ecosystem,” Coffey said, “so we ended up getting rid of it, humanely, and put it back for the snapping turtle that hangs out over near the rocks over there.”

They estimated the piranha to be about 9 1/2 inches in length, weighing about 2 pounds with all those teeth. State officials believe this to be an isolated incident.

Source: 8-year-old reels in piranha at Ridley Park Lake in Delaware County, Pennsylvania: “It was pretty crazy” – CBS Philadelphia

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Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance

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On a spring evening along the banks of the River Thames, thousands of mayflies can be seen engaging in what may be one of the world’s oldest dances. In the fading light, the males make a steep vertical climb, flip over and float back to Earth – wings and tail outstretched in a skydiving posture so as to drop slowly through the sky. Mayflies are among the world’s oldest winged insects, emerging roughly 300m years ago – long before dinosaurs walked the Earth. Even the Mesopotamian poem the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest pieces of literature, makes reference to the short-lived mayfly.

Over the epochs, the insect’s basic design has changed very little compared with the fossils of their ancestors. “They have retained these odd characteristics and we can probably assume that they’ve been doing this [dance] for hundreds of millions of years, and yet we don’t really know why,” says Samuel Fabian, a research fellow at the University of Oxford who studies the aerial behaviours of insects. Now, Fabian and his colleagues at Imperial College London think they finally have an answer. In new research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the scientists reconstructed the flight behaviour of the common mayfly, filming large swarms in the London borough of Richmond in 3D and analysing the insects’ flight paths.

Source: Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance | Insects | The Guardian

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The Activities I can lose myself in.

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Daily writing prompt
What activities do you lose yourself in?
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There are a few things that I lose myself in. They have been my go to things that I have done ever since I was a child. These are the thing sthat help keep me in a sound mind.

TO begin with, I have always been addicted to fishing. It does not matter what kind of fishing, from freshwater to saltwater. Bass fishing, Trout fishing, fly fishing and every other type of fishing that you could imagine. It has been one of my go to get aways.

Second, getting out in and spending time in my garage and tinkering with anything mechanical is another activity I use to clear my mind. Work on an old car, motorcycle, or snowmobile gives me extra piece of mind.

Third, spending time in the woods is meditative and mind clearing. It does not matter if I am going hunting, camping or hiking it is where I love to spend my time.

Finally, spending time time with my family completes the list of actives that I can lose myself in. Between all of these things they help me keep my sanity and always give me something to do.