Winter bugs called snow fleas are born in icy waters and feed on algae that grows on snow. Spring-tails are also called snow fleas and they leap around on snow banks. They eat the sap which oozes from trees. Spring-tails look very similar to fossils of 300 million years ago!
Earthquake registers 3.1
Earthquake registers 3.1 A small earthquake rocked greater Victoria
yesterday. The quake was recorded at 3.1 on the Richter scale and
occurred at 8 am. Scientists say that a large earthquake occurs off
Canada’s West Coast about once every 600 years, but the
probability of this happening within the next 50 years is only 5 to
10 per cent. 11 SEPTEMBER 2000
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