10: Ocean Giants In 2017, footage was recorded that showed
that a diver was in control of a remotely operated vehicle when he discovered one of
the greatest mysteries of the ocean ever!
At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, sitting over 2500 feet (800m) below sea level, he
found the skeleton of an unidentified beast estimated at over 100 feet (30m) in length.
The giant skeleton seems to be the remains of a mythical sea serpent.
Not a single scientist has been able to identify the preposterously large skeleton, with most
admin it nothing like it has ever been found before.
The skeleton was spotted in the middle of a vast undersea community of tiny animals
like crabs and shellfish.
The man operating the underwater vehicle filmed what looked to be a spinal column lying in
the muck at the bottom of the sea.
The column is attached to some larger bones, but it’s impossible to tell what they look
like because it's so murky down there.
The diver tried to use the claw mechanism on the craft to lift up one of the bones,
but it crumbled to dust the moment it was touched by the metal.
The problem now is that the skeleton can’t be transported to the surface because it will
literally disintegrate.
There's no way to properly document it, to know how long the skeleton has been down there,
or to find out just what kind of mysterious beast it once belonged to.
Some speculate that it is the skeleton of a sea serpent, or perhaps a dinosaur from
millions of years ago.
That seems far fetched, but no scientific explanation has solved this mystery so far!
9: The Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle is without a doubt the
most mysterious place in the ocean.
At least, that is when it comes to missing vehicles and unidentified flying objects.
According to legend, supernatural phenomena have been occurring here for centuries.
There are stories of cancer patients being resurrected in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle,
of strange underwater pyramids, and of ships and airplanes vanishing into thin air.
But how much truth is there to the legend?
Yes, over 50 ships and at least 20 aircraft have disappeared from the Bermuda Triangle.
However, nobody has actually been resurrected.
One of the most famous cases of a mysterious vanishing was in December of 1945, when the
U.S. Navy’s Flight 19 group, composed of five torpedo bombers, disappeared without
a trace while passing through this area of the ocean.
The weather got too bad, the plane pilots got disoriented, and the planes lost contact
with the command center.
The airplanes went down somewhere east of Florida.
The military dispatched rescue but even to this day, the wreckage has never been confirmed
as found.
8: Cape Cod Sea Serpent Something terrifying was recently spotted
off the coast of Cape Cod, a potential sea serpent almost 1000 feet (300m) long.
People are always speculating about giant sea monsters living in our oceans, but it's
rare to ever actually find one.
The photograph of the sea monster was taken by an aerial photographer named Wayne Davis.
He was flying over the Atlantic Ocean, near the Nauset Beach Dunes, when he saw the shadow
of the beast and snapped a few quick pics of it.
He had never seen anything like it in his life, though he did admit it kind of reminded
him of a Chinese dragon.
It was extraordinarily long, it seemed to have a tail much longer than its body, and
it moved through the ocean like a snake.
The big problem now is trying to figure out what the creature really was.
Could it have been a truly gigantic sea beast that scientists don't know about?
Or on the other hand, was it simply a shadow on the water that looked like a sea monster?
Skeptics say one thing, true believers say something else, and the truth is hard to pin
down.
7: The Mariana Trench The Mariana Trench is the deepest place in
the world.
It's located just off the coast of Guam, known to be one of the most unique environments
on the planet.
It goes down to a depth of over 36,000 feet (11000 m), hosting some very bizarre sea creatures
at the very bottom.
The creatures who live at the bottom of the trench have adapted to living at pressures
over 1000 times more than what we experience on land.
There are mud volcanoes, vents that spit liquid sulfur, and who knows what else!
It's true that in 2012, James Cameron descended to the bottom – or at least, near the bottom
at 35,756 feet.
However, he was only down there in his submarine for a handful of minutes.
The Mariana Trench is over five times longer than the Grand Canyon.
So, as you can imagine, a few minutes at the bottom in one single spot with only the dim
light of the submarine to locate sea creatures – well, they didn't really discover much.
The truth is that nobody really knows what's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Sure, they found some translucent sea cucumbers, a couple of small organisms, and shrimp scavengers
– but the true beasts of the trench have yet to be identified.
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6: The Ocean Floor The ocean floor itself is almost as mysterious
as the Mariana Trench, and is itself almost entirely unexplored.
According to the United States National Ocean Service, humans have explored less than 20%
of our ocean.
That means we have over 80% of the surface totally unknown to us.
That’s about half of the earth’s surface that we know next to nothing about directly.
Considering how many wild and unbelievable things we've already found, just try to imagine
what's hiding out in these uncharted places on the sea floor.
We actually know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the floor of the
ocean.
Recently, scientists have begun using hydrographic surveys to map the ocean floor.
Still, even with the most impressive modern technology, the coastal waters of the US have
only been 35% mapped.
That means there is a whole world of sunken ships, sea monsters, and geological features
that we know nothing about – less than a mile from the American shoreline!
If you want to explore the unknown, the ocean is a great place to start!
What kind of mysteries do you think are still hiding on the floor of the ocean?
Are there new species there that we’ve never discovered?
Perhaps there are treasures that remain out there, waiting to be found someday.
5: The Underwater City of Japan Off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands in Japan,
one of the most mysterious things in the ocean has been captivating divers, geologists, scientists,
and alien conspiracy theorists since it was discovered in 1987.
The mystery revolves around a pyramid-like formation known as the Yonaguni Monument.
It was uncovered by a diver 75 feet (22m) beneath the surface of the ocean.
The pyramid is roughly 150 feet (45m) long and 60 feet (18m) wide, with most estimates
placing it at least 10,000 years old.
Nobody knows who built it, the Japanese government won't even admit that it’s a man-made formation,
and some scientists have gone so far as to denounce the discovery altogether as conspiracy
nonsense.
But anyone who has actually dove down to look at the pyramid knows it's no joke.
It clearly has steps that were carved out of massive blocks of stone.
Some divers even claim to have found the ruins of what might be an ancient city.
No matter which way you look at it, there is something mystifying going on off the coast
of Japan and no mainstream scientists want anything to do with it.
The best guess is that the pyramid was left behind by an ancient culture, while some more
hairbrained theories claim it could be the ruins of Atlantis.
4: New Sea Animal Paleontologists in Canada have discovered
a new species of sea creature that looked like a football.
The discovery goes to show just how mysterious life in our oceans is, and has been for the
past half a billion years.
This new species has been dated back 500 million years, to the Cambrian period.
It was identified in a piece of shale in the Kootenay National Park, up in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
But the real mystery isn't the fact that the sea fossil was found high up in the mountains,
but that it was a literal giant for the time it was alive.
According to Jean-Bernard Caron, curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario
Museum, the size of the creature is mind boggling.
It's one of the largest animals ever discovered from the Cambrian period.
To give you a bit of a comparison, most sea creatures back then were roughly the size
of your pinky finger.
The football monster was almost two feet (0.6m) long, with a hard protective shell and a mouth
filled with teeth – oh, and don't forget the two spiky claws!
It was a giant, over ten times larger than just about every other creature.
Paleontologists have no idea why the creature grew to such titanic sizes.
They've since named it the Titanokorys, and they say it’s a type of ancient arthropod.
But just how it came to be so big will probably remain a mystery.
3: The Megashark Some people believe there is an ancient mega
shark lurking in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, and it might be a leftover
Megalodon from millions of years ago.
It's one of the most intriguing ocean mysteries of our time.
The issue is that scientists say the Megalodon has been extinct for at least three million
years.
So, the question becomes, could a predator more than 50 feet (15m) long still be lurking
in our oceans without us knowing about it?
Scientists say the answer is maybe.
We know that very little of the ocean has ever been explored, but still, scientists
say it's unlikely for a beast of that magnitude to go unnoticed by all the scientists on the
planet.
That being said, there are some strange discoveries that have suggested a megashark could still
be alive.
In 1875, the HMS Challenger picked up a huge set of 4 inch (10cm) teeth from a depth of
14,000 feet (4200m) off the coast of Tahiti.
Then in 1959, those teeth were estimated at only 11,300 years old.
This would mean the Megalodon didn't actually go extinct when scientists say it.
But unfortunately, nobody has actually seen a megashark in modern times, nor has a dead
megashark body ever washed up on shore or been pulled up from the deep in a fisherman’s
net.
2: The Immortal Jellyfish There are immortal jellyfish swimming in our
oceans.
As crazy as that sounds, it's absolutely true.
The jellyfish has a kind of Benjamin Button syndrome, where it manages to age in reverse
so that it never dies.
The mystery of the immortal jellyfish, if ever solved, could one day not only eradicate
cancer, but maybe even keep humans living longer than ever imagined.
Here's what scientists know so far about the immortal jellyfish.
It's only the size of a pinky fingernail, it was discovered in the Mediterranean Sea
back in the 1880s, and scientists only figured out its uncanny ability about 20 years ago.
The jellyfish has a pretty boring life, for as long as it goes on.
It cheats death by transforming its cells to a previous, younger state.
According to Maria Pia Miglietta, a researcher from the Pennsylvania State University, it
transforms its cells whenever threatened by starvation, physical harm, or some other kind
of crisis.
When it feels death is close, it literally changes its cellular structure so that it
becomes younger.
It reverts back to its original stage in jellyfish life, then grows old again.
In this way, the jellyfish can theoretically grow old, turn back into a young creature,
and grow old again... forever and ever.
As for why humans don’t do that, well, we just aren’t sure.
Maybe someday we’ll be able to do just that!
1: The Creature with Eight Jaws Scientists have just found a monstrous creature
with eight jaws that they’ve dubbed an “evolutionary wonder.”
It’s called the Ophiojura, a creature that looks kind of like a starfish but has too
many mouths and too many hooks on its arms.
If you’ve ever wondered how real Cthulhu is, just look at this thing.
It’s a very real monster.
But its presence in the ocean is also something of a mystery.
Scientists say its closest living relative is from the Jurassic Period, back 180 million
years before today.
It’s a totally new species never before identified, and scientists have no clue how
it’s managed to live so long.
They don’t even know how many of them exist.
Plus, they’re an anomaly.
This eight-jawed critter hasn’t evolved even a little bit in millions of years, which
is pretty much unheard of for sea creatures.
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