Rare baby ghost shark discovered

Ghost sharks are rarely sighted because they hide in the deep sea. A days-old creature, which is also known as a chimaera, was discovered shortly after being hatched at a depth of about 1.2km (0.7 miles) on the Chatham Rise, an area of ocean floor, east coast of New Zealand’s South Island.

Scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research were carrying out a trawl survey when they discovered the neonate (newly-hatched) animal. Other names for it include rat fish, spook fish and rabbit fish, according to the Shark Trust.

Dr Brit Finucci, a member of the team, said of the very rare find: “It’s quite astonishing. Most deep-water ghost sharks are known adult specimens; neonates are infrequently reported so we know very little about them.”

Teen solves 211 Rubik’s cubes on a pogo stick

A Nova Scotia teen combined two of his hobbies and set a Guinness World Record by solving 211 Rubik’s cubes while bouncing on a pogo stick.

Saul Hafting, 16, of Annapolis Royal, spent an hour and 12 minutes solving the 211 Rubik’s cubes while bouncing on his pogo stick.

Guinness World Records confirmed this week that Hafting’s feat was a new world record.

Hafting said he trained for about three months before attempting the record. The teenager said he started solving Rubik’s cubes about six years ago, after a friend showed him a technique.

California doctor’s 3D-printed sculpture

A Southern California doctor broke a Guinness World Record by assembling a 3D-printed sculpture of a human, measuring 19 feet and 10 inches tall.

Dr Vinson Eugene Allen of Gardena said he made his first 3D-printed sculpture of a doctor to adorn a Los Angeles billboard advertising his urgent care centres.

When he researched the record for largest 3D-printed sculpture of a human, he found it wasn’t quite large enough.

So Allen decided to create a larger statue that he dubbed The Statue of Inspiration. The new 3D-printed figure of a doctor stands 19 feet and 10 inches tall. It took 12 weeks for a team of nine people to print the pieces of the statue and assemble them.

Unused ticket to Michael Jordan’s debut game sells for $468,000

An unused ticket to Michael Jordan’s NBA debut game with the Chicago Bulls, in 1984, was auctioned for $468,000. The ticket was to the October 26, 1984, Chicago Bulls home game against the Washington Bullets.

Mike Cole, the ticket’s former owner, was gifted two tickets to the game by Jerry Sachs, a Bullets executive and family friend, while he was attending North-western University in the 1980s. One of the tickets remained intact because he had been unable to find anyone to attend the game with him.

The ticket is the only known surviving example of an unused ticket from the game, which marked the NBA debut of superstar Michael Jordan.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 12th, 2022