Millions of Unknown Creatures From the Sea

The south shore of Oahu is being invaded by something strange from sea, that even has sand crabs running for cover.

"It's the first time I've seen this, I've never seen it before," says beach goer Bruce Kuwana.

"It's really weird, it looks like you want to eat it like a little berry," says beach goer Sonya Lake.

"There are probably millions I'd say," says beach goer Scott Paddock.

If you look closely the entire shoreline is dotted with tiny, purple creatures all curled up.

"Looks like it has about it 6 legs on each side," says Lake. "Yeah it's like an avatar crab."

"When something washes up like this you don't know what to expect, maybe Tsunami stuff," says Kuwana.

It's something many have never seen before. And no one we found knew what they were.

"I definitely want to know where they came from and what they are all about," says Paddock.

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Unknown Creature of Deep Water

The first signs that life can exist in the deepest seas were nets full of mangled goo. The Challenger Expedition, an around-the-world oceanographic study led by Scottish naturalist Charles Wyville Thomson in the 1870s, trawled as deep as 26,000 feet and pulled up more than 4,000 unknown species. The strange creatures, many of which were gelatinous and didn't survive the trip to the surface, overturned the scientific wisdom of the time, which held—reasonably enough—that nothing could survive in a world without light, at temperatures just above freezing and at crushing pressures. It's still hard to believe.

Since then, people have explored the deep ocean—the region below about 650 feet—from inside tethered metal balls called bathyspheres and modern mobile submersibles, and they've sent down remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) equipped with cameras. The deep sea is the largest ecosystem on earth, plunging to more than 37,000 feet below sea level at the Marianas Trench in the Pacific. It accounts for 85 percent of the space where life can exist and holds an estimated ten million or more species. "But we're still trying to figure out what's out there," says marine scientist Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

A new book, The Deep (The University of Chicago Press), by French documentary film producer Claire Nouvian, may be the most comprehensive look at this mysterious world that we surface dwellers will get for a long time. The more than 200 photographs—most taken by scientists from submersibles and ROVs, some shot for the book—show just how head-shakingly bizarre life can be. The scientists who discovered the creatures were apparently as amused as we are, giving them names such as gulper eel, droopy sea pen, squarenose helmetfish, ping-pong tree sponge, Gorgon's head and googly-eyed glass squid.

Nouvian herself made two dives in a submersible, to 3,200 feet. The first thing she noticed, she says, was that "it's very slow. You can tell that all their laws are different." Given the cold, the dark and the scarcity of food, animals tend to be "sit-and-wait predators," floating around and taking what comes their way rather than burning energy to pursue and attack.

The main source of food in the deep is "marine snow," flakes of dead things and fecal matter that drift down from the bright ocean. Sometimes entire feasts fall to the seafloor: a few years ago, oceanographers discovered several species of snails and worms that dine on dead whales. Other deep-sea food webs are fueled by hydrothermal vents, cracks in the ocean floor where seawater mixes with magma and erupts in hot, sulfur-rich plumes. Microbes have evolved the ability to convert chemicals from these vents into energy—a way of life that was unknown before 1977.

There's little or no sunlight in the deep, but most animals "bioluminesce," flashing like fireflies. They turn on headlights to see food or attract mates; anglerfish dangle wormlike glowing appendages to lure prey. Some deep-sea squid shoot a cloud of bioluminescence to distract predators, much as upper-ocean squid squirt black ink. Jellyfish, often transparent in the oceans above, tend to be dark, which shields them from attention while their swallowed prey bioluminesces in its death throes. Down below, says Nouvian, the bioluminescence—some in short flashes, some in shimmering curtains, some hopping about like grasshoppers—"is more dramatic than the most dramatic sky with shooting stars."

The drama of discovery shows no sign of ending. In some surveys, 50 percent to 90 percent of the animals hauled up from the deep are unknown. We'll have to keep expanding our conception of what it means to be an Earthling.

Reported by: Laura Helmuth

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Unknown Creature 2013 | in laboratory

An unknown creature found in mexico.

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Another Unknown Creature | In The Sewers Of a House

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GIANT Pangolin | RARE ANIMAL

The giant pangolin (Manis gigantea) is a pangolin species. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range stretching along the equator from West Africa to Uganda. The giant pangolin is the largest species of pangolin, or "scaly anteaters" – the large, scaled mammals belonging to the Manidae family. It subsists almost entirely on ants and termites. The species was first described by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1815.

Habitat, range, and endangered status

By Scientist X

The giant pangolin inhabits many countries, with the largest concentration in Uganda, Tanzania, and western Kenya. It is found mainly in the savanna, rainforest, and forest, inhabiting areas with large termite populations and available water. It does not inhabit high-altitude areas.

Due to habitat destruction and deforestation, the species is in great decline, and this, together with huntingof it as bushmeat and for the supposed medicinal properties of its scales, has led to concerns about population levels. Because the species is nocturnal, few studies have been carried out. Currently, this pangolin is classified as a "least concern" by the IUCN.

Physical description

The giant pangolin is the largest of all pangolin species. While its average mass has not been measured, one specimen was found to weigh 33 kg (72.6 lbs). Males are larger than females, with male body lengths about 140 cm (4 feet, 7.1 inches) and females about 125 cm (4 feet, 1.2 inches). Like all pangolins, the species is armored with large, brown to reddish-brown scales formed from keratin. Curiously, it also has eyelashes. The giant pangolin has a long snout, a long thick tail, and large front claws.

The animal has a strong sense of smell and large anal glands. Its secretions may be significant to animal communication. The species walks with most of its weight is on its columnar rear legs, and curls its front paws, walking on the outside of the wrists rather than the palms to protect the claws. By using its tail for balance, it will often walk upright as a biped.

Behavior

Specimen

The giant pangolin, like other pangolins, is motile and nocturnal, which makes observation difficult. It is also usually solitary, although in one case an adult was seen in a burrow with a juvenile. The species is capable of climbing trees and other objects.

Diet

Like all pangolins, the giant pangolin is a specialized insectivore that lacks teeth and the ability to chew. Its diet mainly consists of ants and termites, which it finds by tearing open anthills and termite nests, both subterranean and mound-type.

Because of its relatively large size, the giant pangolin is particularly well-suited to breaking open termite mounds, done by leaning on the mound and resting its weight on its tail, and then ripping into the mound with its front claws. The combination of weight and physical damage quickly leads to a partial collapse of the mound, exposing the termites. It eats the insects by picking them up with its sticky tongue, which is up to 16 inches long. Only the adults are strong enough to do this, their young having to follow behind their mothers, until they grow large enough to do it for themselves.

Reproduction

Very little information about the reproduction of the giant pangolin is known. Two birth records exist, with one litter in September and another in October, with the young weighing around 500 g. As in all pangolins, infants have soft scales that eventually harden, and are born with open eyes. They cannot walk on their legs, but can move on their stomachs.

Giant pangolin
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Pholidota
Family:	Manidae
Genus:	Manis
Species:	M. gigantea
Binomial name
Manis gigantea Illiger, 1815
Giant Pangolin range

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Unknown and Weird Animal Found

This animal was found in somewhere in Brazil!
Since 2010 more than 3000 species appeared on earth. Remains a mystery.
Scientists refuse to talk.

Reported by: Scientist x

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Giant Octopus - Rare Species

Enteroctopus is a genus of generally temperate octopuses. Members of the genus Enteroctopus are characterized by their large size and are often known as the giant octopuses. Enteroctopus species have distinct longitudinal wrinkles or folds dorsally and laterally on the body. The head is distinctly narrower than the mantle width. The hectocotylus of the males in this genus, found on the third right arm, is long and narrow in comparison with other genera in the family Octopodidae, often comprising one fifth the length of the arm. Octopuses in this genus have large paddle-like papillae instead of the more conical papillae in other octopus genera.

Enteroctopus membranaceus has often been regarded as type species of the genus, not because it was designated as such by Rochebrune and Mabille when they erected the genus, but because it was the first named species in the genus. Robson in his 1929 monograph of octopods regarded E. membranaceus as a species dubium because the original description was insufficient to identify an individual species, the holotype was an immature specimen, and the type specimen was no longer extant. As such, the genus was considered invalid until Hochberg resurrected it in 1998. Hochberg noted that Robson had considered E. membranaceus a junior synonym of E. megalocyathus, the second species assigned to the genus by Rochebrune and Mabille in their 1889 description. Additionally, since Rochebrune and Mabille did not actually assign type status to E. membranaceus, Hochberg concluded that Enteroctopus was indeed a valid genus and transferred type species status to E. megalocyathus by virtual monotypy.

The member of this genus that best embodies the common name "giant octopus" is Enteroctopus dofleini, which holds the record of being the world's largest octopus based on direct measurements of a 71-kg (156.5-lb) individual weighed live. This octopus had a total length of 7 m (23 ft). The remaining members of the genus are substantially smaller, with E. megalocyathushaving an average mass of 4 kg and reaching a total length of 1 m. E. magnificus reaches a total length of around 1.5 m.

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SPIDER | Poecilotheria Regalis | - Rare Species

Poecilotheria regalis is a species of arboreal tarantulas from the Western and Eastern Ghats, India. It is one of the most popular arboreal tarantulas. Their legspan sometimes exceeds 7 inches (18 cm).

The name Poecilotheria is derived from Greek "poikilos" - spotted and "therion" - wild beast. Regalis refers to "royal". This whole genus of arboreal tarantulas exhibits an intricate fractal-like pattern on the abdomen. The spider's natural habitat is primarily Southeastern India. The common name for this spider is Indian Ornamental Tree Spider, or simply Indian Ornamental.

The P. regalis' behavior parallels that of many arboreal spiders. In the wild the P. regalis live in holes of tall trees where they make asymmetric funnel webs. Their primary prey consists of various flying insects, which they seize in flight and paralyze. It is not unknown for the spiders of this genus to live communally when territory, i.e. number of holes per tree, is limited. They tend to be quite defensive spiders.
Although there has never been a recorded death from any tarantula bite this species is considered to have a medically significant bite, with venom that may cause intense pain, judging from the experience of keepers bitten by other spiders from this genus. They move rapidly and, although they generally prefer flight to fight, may attack when cornered.

Poecilotheria regalis
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Subfamily:	Poecilotheriinae
Genus:	Poecilotheria
Species:	P. regalis
Binomial name
Poecilotheria regalis (Pocock, 1899)

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