On long range fishing trips there’s no telling what will be brought up to the boat. There’s a Russian deep sea fisherman who has amassed a massive following showcasing the peculiar creatures his crew hauls in and his latest catch, a type of ‘sea spider‘, is one of his weirdest yet. The account,

iStockphoto / Velvetfish Deep sea researchers spotted a giant phantom jellyfish (Stygiomedusa gigantea) at 3,200 feet in Monterey Bay This jelly is referred to as a ‘ghostly giant’ because its legs can grow up to 33-feet-long and the bell of this jellyfish is nearly 4-feet wide itself Read

This is 100% not an alien, you guys. Definitely not. To insist that this is an alien would be outlandish. 2020 is already weird enough so let’s just get this alien shit out of our heads right now, cool? This spiral-shaped freak of a creature measures 50-feet across and was filmed during an

You know what’s pretty gross and something that we almost never ever thinking about? Right now, at this exact moment, there are probably tens of thousands of rotting dead whales sitting at the bottom of the ocean decomposing. They’re all in various stages of disappearing. It starts with the big

Author: Science News Staff / Source: Science News Scientists have long thought that children inherit mitochondria — tiny energy factories found in cells — from only their mothers. But data from three unrelated families suggest that in rare cases children can also inherit mitochondria from their