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The temperature was -11 degrees Fahrenheit, but nearly 400 people still gathered in Winnipeg Canada to form the world’s longest chain of ice skaters. They held each other’s waists like a giant conga line and had to skate 400 meters without breaking the chain. They called the event Chain For Change and raised $145,000 for Cancer Care Manitoba!
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A team of divers called PTO Exploration set a new world record for deepest dive under ice. The group dove 433 feet into Mazinaw Lake in Ontario Canada. The world record was a bonus; the team’s purpose was to search for Indigenous artifacts beneath 1500 year-old pictographs painted on a rock face. More explorations are planned.
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Australia’s got a little something stuck to its face. It’s a 1.7 billion year-old piece of North America! Geologists found that the sandstone in the Georgetown region of Australia matched rocks in Canada. They believe all the continents merged 1.6 billion years ago to form a supercontinent, Nuna. When they separated, that piece remained.
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Researchers have discovered a new species fossilized in British Columbia Canada. The Kootenayscolex barbarensis is a bristle-covered worm that looks like a pipe cleaner! It lived 508 million years ago during the Cambrian period. The unusually well-preserved annelids, which are segmented worms, will provide important information showing their evolution into modern worm species.
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If you were in the Innisfail Dairy Queen drive-thru in Alberta Canada last week, you might have seen a crazy sight. A Kodiak bear popped her head out the driver’s window to lick a spoon of ice cream! One-year old Berkley was picking out the flavor for her birthday cake.
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Police in Montreal played along when they stopped to investigate a snow-covered car in the snow removal lane. Simon Laprise had carved a detailed Delorean automobile out of snow. They gave the car an appropriate parking ticket. The ticket just said in French, “You made our evening, hahahahaha”. Snowplows soon destroyed it.
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Last night near Detroit Michigan, a meteor lit up the sky. The meteor was seen and heard in 6 states and parts of Canada. Video of the brilliant fireball was captured by many home security systems and dashcams. The bolide exploded in the atmosphere, causing a loud boom and a magnitude 2.0 seismic wave!
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The Toronto Zoo received a special delivery Christmas Eve. Their white rhino, Zohari, had a baby! A rhinoceros is pregnant for more than 500 days, so they’ve been anticipating this rare white rhino for a long time. The healthy calf weighed 136 pounds at birth and apparently has very hairy ears.
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Six Flags Great Adventure theme park had a giant snowball fight scheduled, but had to cancel it because of snow! They wanted to gather 9000 people for a fight using fake pluff snowballs to set a world record. Saskatoon Canada holds the true snowball fight record with 7681 people hurling real snowballs! DUCK!
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