And it was set in a wider watery ooze.

In the end, what we realized we were making was a new blue green watery park for the next watery century an amphibious park, if you will.

For starters, the Mediterranean Sea has been all but abandoned to human smugglers. The Mare Nostrum is gradually becoming the kind of vast and watery mass grave described by a faraway poet.

Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea and her theory on why mainstream science doesn't take it seriously.

If there is one thing BP's watery improv act made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back up plan, without an exit strategy.

For millennia, their ancestors took their watery environment for granted to them, it was emptiness as empty as they could conceive. But, after studying some mechanics and using their imaginations, the physicist fish realize that they could deduce much simpler laws of motion by supposing that they are surrounded by a medium (water!) that complicates the appearance of things.