Going viral from theblaze.com:

'Easily the Most Insane Animal Footage': What is This Strange Underwater Creature?Initially it just whisks by, but keep watching for its return, where it balloons out to over 400% of its original size, then turns itself inside out. Its skin appears to be at least partially reflective (the light glares off of it) and ( Read more... )

Further to the earlier entry on Mola mola, aka Moonfish, aka Sunfish.

This is a baby Sunfish.


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Ranging widely in size & shape, and occasionally resembling someone you might know..


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As far as tall tales go, this one's a whopper ( Read more... )

I just watched an episode of The Blue Planet about some fascinating creatures.

Let's start with this GIANT FREAKING SNAIL HOLY CRAP.


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I had a single page of "deep-sea facts" for many years on my website and always intended to update it, but procrastinated until just last night. Probably not much new to wtf_nature, though I couldn't find much mention of the Xenophyophores here ( Read more... )

Jellyfish are usually pretty strange looking creatures, but this one doesn't even look like it's from the family...


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