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Watch a heron use bait to catch a fish

This heron carefully places a tiny piece of bread in the water, then grabs the fish that comes to eat it.

Basically, the very human activity of Fishing.

Green heron using a piece of bread as bait to catch a fish.

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Off for the US Holiday — More Grammar

We are off today and tomorrow for the US Independence Day holiday. Also included, a song that hews carefully to archaic rules about prepositions at the end of sentences.

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Eating just one freshwater fish is like drinking a month's worth of "forever chemical"–laced water

A new study reveals the stomach-churning consequences of chemical pollution

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Twelve-year-old goes fishing, reels in great white shark (video)

Campbell Keenan, 12, of Boston, was visiting Fort Lauderdale, Florida when his family went out on a charter fishing boat. Keenan had fished before—his best catch was a 25-inch striper. On this trip though, he almost needed… a bigger boat.

"Well, it was a pretty slow day, we were just catching some fish, and then all of sudden, when they starting reeling it in, it took out drag, and I was like, 'Is this thing going to pull me in?' — Read the rest