From this vantage point high over the Indian Ocean, we have a spectacular view of the "underwater waterfall" formed off the coast of Mauritius. Not a true waterfall, this is an optical illusion—it"s really the trails of sand and silt deposits on the seafloor being washed by currents over the edge of an ocean shelf. But we"re probably not alone in thinking at first glance that the ocean is pouring into some massive unseen drainpipe.
Getting to the bottom of the underwater waterfall
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Wildlife Conservation Day
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St. Patricks Day
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Night of the ‘Cold Moon’
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Bridges to the past
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A red fox on the Swiss side of the Jura Mountain range
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Freeloaders of the avian world
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The rainbow connection
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Black History Month
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Winter in the Finnish wilds
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Saint Dwynwen s Day
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National Fossil Day
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