Ingenuity at sea: Cubans use makeshift rafts known as 'corchos' to catch elusive fish
As dawn breaks on calm days, hundreds of fishermen set sail in their unusual rafts, known as “corchos” (or corks), along the ...
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With fewer boats Cuba's fishermen take to the sea in floating rafts to land their catch
The vessels are named corchos, which translates to cork in English, are makeshift rafts have become a part of the capital’s seascape. (AP video shot by Ariel Fernández, Milexsy Duran and Ramón ...
Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...
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Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made the extraordinary voyage by rafting on floating vegetation ... to survive long-distance ocean travel, according to an October ...
PHOTO ESSAY Ingenuity at sea: Cubans use makeshift rafts known as ‘corchos’ to catch elusive fish
From a distance, they look like tiny white dots floating on the sea. But get closer, and you’ll see people sitting on ...
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Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of miles and one giant ocean away ... pulled off the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees ...
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Ingenuity at sea: Cubans use makeshift rafts known as ‘corchos’ to catch elusive fish
But get closer, and you’ll see people sitting on polyfoam rectangles. They are fishermen floating on makeshift rafts that have become common on the waters off the coast of Havana, as Cubans find ...