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Speaker 1: Calaruga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. A grapevine and Tibet officially recognized as

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the oldest in the world. The grapevine is four hundred

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and sixteen years old. You'll find the world's oldest vine

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at seventy nine hundred feet. It's twenty six feet tall

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and has a diameter of more than two feet.

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Speaker 2: If you make your way up to the mountains of Tibet,

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take a selfie. In two thousand and two, a seventy

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seven year old man in Chile walked into the Greek

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embassy and had a request. And Rico wanted to return

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a some all piece of marble that his father had

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removed from the acropolis like one hundred years earlier. Yeah,

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back in the nineteen thirties, and Rico's father served as

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a young Italian sub mariner. During a visit to Athens,

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he tore the Parthenon and found a small marble fragment

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decorated with a lotus flower. He took it home. After

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World War Two he moved to Chile. He showed it

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to his guests. And Rico continued the tradition said when

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someone came to my house the first time I showed

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them to Stone and saying this is from the Parthenon.

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Some believe me, others didn't. Then in twenty twenty two,

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he's watching some news coverage about the Parthenon people wanting

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to get their stuff back, and it's like, eh, okay.

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The Parthenon folks thanked him for demonstrating honor and courage

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and hopes other will follow suit. Let's stay an ancient time.

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Scientists in Europe have created the most detailed digital map

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of the Roman Empire's road network. They've produced an atlas

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that functions much like a historical version of Google Maps.

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The new data set expands the estimated size of the

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Roman road system by more than sixty thousand miles. Earlier

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maps were incompleted or were low resolution. Previous estimates said

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the roads were like one hundred and seventeen thousand miles.

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The new system says it's more like one hundred and

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eighty thousand. The team does say only two point seven

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percent of the road locations are known with certainty, the

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rest are considered less precise, and seven point four percent

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are hypothet They did some calculations. If you wanted to

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go from say, Salamanca and Spain to Common in northern Italy.

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That would have taken you around four hundred and forty

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seven hours on foot. Roman travelers could expect to walk

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around two point four miles an hour thanks to the

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quality of the roads. Engineers built the roads to require

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minimal maintenance by digging a deep trench, filling it with

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layers of rubble, soil and sand, adding gravel and concrete

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lime mixtures. Stones were set on the top to minimize

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water infiltration, and roads were constructed with a slight arch

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to allow for drainage. Good news if you like sharks,

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and really bad news if you don't. The largest male

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great white shark ever recorded was pinged off the coast

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of New Jersey. Don't tell me that I like the beach.

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The shark is sixteen hundred and fifty three pounds thirteen

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feet long. Scientists think the shark's about thirty two years old.

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All right, just left me alone so far. I'll calm down, contender.

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The shark has been pinged migrating from Florida up the

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East coast into Canada. Now he's on his way back

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down the coast. Spotted near New Jersey, there's pictures of

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contender no thank you Jess when he thought it was

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safe to go in the water, and there are scary

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sharks Off the coast of New Jersey. Scientists have discovered

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thirty previously unknown deep sea species from one of the

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most remote regions on the Earth, including a predatory sponge

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described as a death ball. Yikes. The death ball is

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spherical and covered in tiny hooks used to trap prey.

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Most sponges are pretty chill, not these guys. They found

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the death ball at a depth of thirty six hundred

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and one meters off the coast of montagu Island. The

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scientists also documented zombie worms. Apparently, zombie worms feed using

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symbiotic bacteria that break down fats inside whalebones. Doctor Michelle

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Taylor is the head of Science at the Nipon Foundation

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and says the Southern Ocean remains profoundly undersampled. To date,

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we've only assessed under thirty percent of the samples collected

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from the expeditions, so confirming thirty new species already show

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how much biodiversity is still undocumented in Those are your

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five good news stories for today. Stay out of water, bye,