From a prehistoric monster to mysterious orbs of light in the sky, plus cannibal monkeys
and an underwater beast you won’t believe!
Here are 10 of the most bizarre things ever caught!
10: Blue Chimaera The pointy-nosed blue chimaera is a bizarre
species of deep fish that is not often caught on the end of an angler’s line.
And yet it does happen occasionally.
Fishermen from Minnesota recently got lucky and caught one of these rare fish off the
coast of Cabo in Mexico.
It was such a weird and unique catch that the fishermen took it back to shore and donated
it to local scientists for research.
But just what exactly is the blue chimaera?
It's a type of ghost shark that branched apart from normal sharks about 400 million years
ago.
It lives in the deepest parts of the ocean, and there are several different species.
The pointy-nosed chimaera was only named back in 2002.
The creature has a body built of plates and hardened pieces of cartilage.
And even though it's such a creepy and rarely caught animal, chimaeras are actually really
common.
The only thing is that they live around 4000 feet(1219m) deep, in a part of the ocean too
deep to fish.
9: Living Fossil Fish Scientists have made some pretty strange discoveries
recently regarding the coelacanth, which is a giant fish considered to be a living fossil.
This fish has been living in our oceans for 400 million years.
Scientists believed they were extinct until a living specimen was captured in 1938 off
South Africa.
Since then, a few fishermen have reeled in coelacanths, though it's still considered
to be one of the rarest catches possible.
The fish is also extremely endangered, so scientists are only allowed to study specimens
already captured and already deceased.
As you can imagine, it's been difficult to study the coelacanth given the limitations
and scarcity of the fish.
Scientists originally believed the coelacanth lived for only about 20 years.
However, scientists from France’s Marine Research Institute recently studied a captured
coelacanth specimen and discovered it to be 84 years old.
They now believe this fish can live for up to a century.
It turns out the coelacanth doesn't reach its sexual maturity until nearly 50 years
old.
It would be like you hitting puberty at the age of 49!
And even more shocking is that the coelacanth stays pregnant for five years.
They have a totally bizarre aging pattern and reproductive system, and scientists really
want to catch more of these fascinating fish to get to the bottom of their weird characteristics.
8: Mysterious Orbs Let's take a break from the ocean to check
out something strange caught on a homeowner’s security camera in Maryland.
The homeowner’s name is Rhonda, and she was quite shocked to discover a row of brightly
lit orbs floating across her backyard.
In the security footage, Rhonda saw six distinct orbs of light moving across the frame.
She couldn't say what the mysterious balls of light were, but she knew they were way
out of the ordinary.
Rhonda had installed her security system some time ago and was used to catching random animals
prowling through the backyard – but she’d never seen suspicious, alien-like bulbs of
light before.
Rhonda sent the security footage to Fox News after seeing how they had covered similar
orbs caught on another homeowner’s camera in Florida.
There has been no explanation as to what the orbs were in either case, and we don't know
if the two incidents were related.
We do know it wasn't a glitch in the camera because it never happened before and it never
happened again.
Could it be aliens, a mysterious animal, or something even stranger?
Nobody knows the truth!
What do you think these strange mysterious balls of light mean?
Could it really be something otherworldly?
Or do you think it is just a coincidence?
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7: The Kraken Caught After centuries of trying to track down the
mythical kraken, scientists finally did it.
They found the beast near Japan and actually managed to capture it on video.
It wasn't exactly the kraken from legend.
It wasn't 100 feet(30m) long or anything like that.
Instead, it was an ordinary giant squid, but it was the biggest squid in the entire world
and probably the true origin for the kraken myth.
In real life, this living sea monster can grow to be around 46 feet(14m) long.
That's roughly the length of a trailer!
But even though the giant squid is so incredibly huge, it is surprisingly elusive.
Almost nobody has ever caught a giant squid, and when they have, it's either been dead,
dying, a baby, or a juvenile stuck in a deep-sea trawling net.
Now we go back to Japan, where a team of marine scientists caught the kraken on film for the
first time in 2012.
It was located and filmed 2000 feet(609m) beneath the surface, just south of Japan.
This was a huge breakthrough for marine scientists everywhere, and really got everyone excited.
But an even bigger breakthrough came a couple of years ago in 2019 when researchers were
finally able to catch it on video again in the Gulf of Mexico.
They discovered the reason for the giant squid being so elusive.
Based on the last sighting, scientists determined that its eyeballs are so big and so well-adapted
to living in the pitch black of the deep ocean that they can actually see underwater researchers
coming in their submersible vehicles and they run away.
The bigger the squid, the bigger the eye – and so they’ll probably never be seen since
they can spot the camera coming from miles away!
I guess they’re shy!
Researchers are trying to figure out ways to trick the ‘Kraken’ out of hiding to
further study it.
They have a strategy of combining low-light equipment with bioluminescent bait, which
seems to be a pretty effective method of getting the giant squid out of its hiding places.
That's a handy ploy, as there is much to study about the kraken's behavior that can only
come to light in the darkness of its natural habitat.
6: A Mysterious Moth Believe it or not, there is a tiny insect
even more elusive and mysterious than the giant squid.
It's called the long-toothed dart moth, and it was first discovered and named in 1890.
But after that, it was never seen again.
It would be another 130 years before someone captured the first living specimen.
Photographer Joel Sartore is the one who caught the moth on film recently in 2020.
According to National Geographic, Joel was on a mission to photograph every species of
animal living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries everywhere in the world.
This rare moth was the 11,000th image Joel added to his Photo Ark.
He found the moth along the Pecos River in New Mexico and took a picture of it.
At the time, he didn't actually know what it was.
It was a mysterious species, so he sent it to a bug expert who could identify it.
As it turned out, bug experts had been waiting 130 years for a picture of the mysterious
moth!
It's actually a type of cutworm, a kind of caterpillar that emerges from the soil only
at night and is rarely seen.
When they turn into moths, they also come out only after dark and pollinate night-blooming
flowers.
5: Monster Grouper In South Carolina, a fisherman made a rather
impressive catch after reeling in a rare species of fish that was recently on the brink of
extinction.
The group went out fishing on a Thursday morning in Beaufort County and quickly caught a goliath
grouper that weighed over 400 pounds(181kg)!
According to Newsweek, it was the first of its kind ever to be caught in the county.
The captain of the fishing vessel described the grouper as a catch you wait your whole
life for.
But just how hard is it to pull a goliath grouper into your boat?
The answer is pretty darn hard.
It took over an hour just to get the fish in the boat.
And it was a struggle the whole time.
At first, the fishermen thought they had a monster shark on the end of their line.
It fought so fiercely nobody could believe it would be a fish.
Then after an hour when they finally saw it thrashing at the surface of the water, they
were in complete shock.
People started shouting, “It’s a goliath!
It’s a goliath!”
The fish was easily identifiable by its yellowish skin and unique jaw.
Even though the grouper weighed 400 pounds(181kh), it was just a baby.
The average goliath grouper actually weighs around 800 pounds(363kg) and grows to be over
8 feet(2.4m) long.
Groupers are not native to the South Carolina county they were found in.
They usually prefer shallow tropical waters around the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, the
Gulf of Mexico and a lot of the coasts in Brazil and the Caribbean.
4: Monkey Cannibals In Costa Rica, scientists have been studying
a group of white-faced capuchin monkeys for the last 37 years.
In all those years, the monkeys were never witnessed participating in the disturbing
act of cannibalism.
And yet on April 9, 2019, a group of scientists caught the monkeys red-handed eating one of
their own in a very rare and quite disgusting event!
It happened when a young baby capuchin died.
This occurs from time to time and isn't actually all that strange.
The weird part came after, when the baby monkey’s relatives gathered around its corpse and began
to eat it!
It was pretty horrible, and scientists couldn’t believe what they were watching.
Most capuchin monkeys only eat plants and the occasional small animal, like a bird or
a lizard.
Even stranger is that only two of the monkeys actually participated in the eating, and they
refrained from eating the baby monkey’s head.
Usually when an animal catches its prey, it will begin by biting its face, thus quickly
silencing the animal.
This has suggested to researchers that cannibalism could be part of some kind of primitive monkey
ritual.
3: 2000 Dogs A Chinese millionaire recently captured 2000
dogs.
He didn't run around catching them with a giant dog net.
Instead, he used his immense fortune to purchase stray dogs before they could be sent to the
slaughterhouse to be euthanized, and now he spends all his time caring for his huge collection
of beloved canine friends!
How incredible is that?!
This is probably the most heartwarming story anyone has heard recently.
Wang Yan got the idea to save all the stray dogs after his own cherished puppy died three
years prior.
He's actually in charge of a steel empire and is worth millions, but he puts a huge
amount of his own time and a large portion of his own funds into caring for his thousands
of animals and helping them find new homes.
This just goes to show that even a millionaire that may seem like they have better things
to do, if they want to, can make a significant difference in the world.
After all, this guy literally saved the lives of thousands of dogs, at least 10,000 to date,
and it only cost him a small bit of time and a small chunk of his huge fortune!
2: Loch Ness Monster Once again, the Loch Ness Monster has been
caught on camera.
A 54 year old woman named Karen Scott was taking pictures of Loch Ness while visiting
from the nearby city of Aberdeen during the coronavirus pandemic.
She was simply enjoying her day and taking in the beautiful sights.
What she hadn't expected was to actually catch the monster itself in her photographs!
The unidentified creature seen in Karen’s pictures has been labeled a positive Nessie
sighting by the official register.
But unfortunately, the picture is still pretty blurry.
It was taken from quite a distance away.
It could be anything, really, even just a bird sitting on the water.
However, Karen says she watched the beast rise and then sink and swim away, suggesting
it really could have been some kind of creature.
She also said it was the size of a large seal.
Since there aren’t many seals hanging out in the loch, all signs point to the Loch Ness
Monster.
Or, of course, a floating tree branch.
Do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster?
1: Colorful Lobsters Very strange lobsters were caught during the
lobster fishing season in P.E.I. in 2021.
Normally, lobsters captured off the coast of this small Canadian province are the same
color.
They're usually a brownish-red color – you know, like any ordinary lobster you see at
your grocery store.
But this year, there must have been something in the water.
Fishermen were pulling up blue lobsters, jet black lobsters, and even hybrid lobsters half
orange and half black like the Two-Face of the lobster world!
But why have there been so many colorful lobsters found just now?
Why weren't there any found before?
According to lobster biologist Robert MacMillian, it has to do with genetics and diet.
Lobsters inherit their color from their parents just like most other species.
Lobsters also get a lot of their color from the pigment in their food, which combines
with proteins to create the color we see on their shell.
The reason so many oddly colored lobsters have been turning up is because they’ve
basically mutated.
The lobsters with weird colors have mutated in such a way that their proteins are different,
producing a wider variety of color.
But why?
Well, nobody’s really sure about that.
Do you have any ideas?
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