Fish, Plastic & Armadillos

With Sun now moving through fishy zodiac sign Pisces, I'll remain in fishy mode too with a link to an article from the BBC magazine:

Will there be more fish or plastic in the sea in 2050?

By Leo Hornak

"A recent claim that there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050 was intended to highlight a pollution crisis in the oceans. The problem really does exist, but do the figures hold water, or is there something fishy going on?"

Seems it's possible there'll be more of both, bearing in mind that plastic doesn't decay quickly - if at all, and fish populations could possibly increase - though dead fish do eventually decay, and do so fairly quickly, I'd guess. Numbers aside, contamination will continue for centuries, should humans survive long enough to monitor such things.

Another interesting piece, this one relates to wildlife of the past, jumbo-sized relatives of today's armadillos. I've been fascinated by armadillos ever since seeing an illustration of one in an old book sometime in my early childhood in the UK, where armadillos are never seen. Now I've seen a real one - just one live one, but sadly many dead ones, on the highway, especially in the morning hours. Their armour coat amazes me still. Anyway, this article is about an ancestor of theirs.

Monstrous fossils 'were armadillos', says DNA evidence