Giant great white shark off the coast of New Jersey!

A 416-year-old grapevine in Tibet is the oldest in the world. The second story recounts a 77-year-old man from Chile returning a marble fragment his father took from the Parthenon nearly a century ago. Scientists have created the most detailed digital map of the Roman Empire's road network, expanding its estimated size to 180,000 miles. The largest male great white shark, weighing 1,653 pounds, was recently recorded off the coast of New Jersey. Lastly, 30 previously unknown deep-sea species were discovered near Montagu Island, including a predatory sponge called the 'death ball' and zombie worms that feed on whale bones.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Calaruga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. A grapevine and Tibet officially recognized as
the oldest in the world. The grapevine is four hundred
and sixteen years old. You'll find the world's oldest vine

(00:23):
at seventy nine hundred feet. It's twenty six feet tall
and has a diameter of more than two feet.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
If you make your way up to the mountains of Tibet,
take a selfie. In two thousand and two, a seventy
seven year old man in Chile walked into the Greek
embassy and had a request. And Rico wanted to return
a some all piece of marble that his father had
removed from the acropolis like one hundred years earlier. Yeah,
back in the nineteen thirties, and Rico's father served as

(00:51):
a young Italian sub mariner. During a visit to Athens,
he tore the Parthenon and found a small marble fragment
decorated with a lotus flower. He took it home. After
World War Two he moved to Chile. He showed it
to his guests. And Rico continued the tradition said when
someone came to my house the first time I showed
them to Stone and saying this is from the Parthenon.
Some believe me, others didn't. Then in twenty twenty two,

(01:12):
he's watching some news coverage about the Parthenon people wanting
to get their stuff back, and it's like, eh, okay.
The Parthenon folks thanked him for demonstrating honor and courage
and hopes other will follow suit. Let's stay an ancient time.
Scientists in Europe have created the most detailed digital map
of the Roman Empire's road network. They've produced an atlas
that functions much like a historical version of Google Maps.

(01:35):
The new data set expands the estimated size of the
Roman road system by more than sixty thousand miles. Earlier
maps were incompleted or were low resolution. Previous estimates said
the roads were like one hundred and seventeen thousand miles.
The new system says it's more like one hundred and
eighty thousand. The team does say only two point seven
percent of the road locations are known with certainty, the

(01:55):
rest are considered less precise, and seven point four percent
are hypothet They did some calculations. If you wanted to
go from say, Salamanca and Spain to Common in northern Italy.
That would have taken you around four hundred and forty
seven hours on foot. Roman travelers could expect to walk
around two point four miles an hour thanks to the

(02:15):
quality of the roads. Engineers built the roads to require
minimal maintenance by digging a deep trench, filling it with
layers of rubble, soil and sand, adding gravel and concrete
lime mixtures. Stones were set on the top to minimize
water infiltration, and roads were constructed with a slight arch
to allow for drainage. Good news if you like sharks,
and really bad news if you don't. The largest male

(02:37):
great white shark ever recorded was pinged off the coast
of New Jersey. Don't tell me that I like the beach.
The shark is sixteen hundred and fifty three pounds thirteen
feet long. Scientists think the shark's about thirty two years old.
All right, just left me alone so far. I'll calm down, contender.
The shark has been pinged migrating from Florida up the

(02:58):
East coast into Canada. Now he's on his way back
down the coast. Spotted near New Jersey, there's pictures of
contender no thank you Jess when he thought it was
safe to go in the water, and there are scary
sharks Off the coast of New Jersey. Scientists have discovered
thirty previously unknown deep sea species from one of the
most remote regions on the Earth, including a predatory sponge

(03:20):
described as a death ball. Yikes. The death ball is
spherical and covered in tiny hooks used to trap prey.
Most sponges are pretty chill, not these guys. They found
the death ball at a depth of thirty six hundred
and one meters off the coast of montagu Island. The
scientists also documented zombie worms. Apparently, zombie worms feed using

(03:43):
symbiotic bacteria that break down fats inside whalebones. Doctor Michelle
Taylor is the head of Science at the Nipon Foundation
and says the Southern Ocean remains profoundly undersampled. To date,
we've only assessed under thirty percent of the samples collected
from the expeditions, so confirming thirty new species already show
how much biodiversity is still undocumented in Those are your

(04:03):
five good news stories for today. Stay out of water, bye,