Marine

Huge Jellyfish Is Extremely Rare, Nightmare Fuel

Bones of 110 million year old Ichtyosaurus found in Richmond

hirty years before that, on a sunny day in the summer of 1971, another group of setnet fishermen in a skiff had also seen a large sea animal they did not recognize. In 1977 Eddie Pakkanin, who was in that skiff that day, told the Kodiak High School oral history magazine, Elwani, that the animal was about 30 feet long and “had a head on it like a horse and would blow through its nose.”
Pakkanin said that another man in the skiff, DeWitt Fields, fired at the animal with a rifle as they approached it. The animal went below the surface then and turned and swam under the skiff before surfacing on the other side.
“We don’t know what it was, but it had a grayish color and we couldn’t see any fins or any tail and it never made any noise. It would just come up and you could see the head and part of the body.”

The truth about the Casco Bay sea serpent

Marine Biologists Identify New Species of Beaked Whale.

Did a great white shark attack a porpoise off the UK coast?

New type of transient killer whale identified.

How Australia’s saltwater crocodiles are being made scapegoats amid increasing conflicts with humans.

Lionfish found in British waters for the first time (via Mark Raines)

Faroe islanders barbarically kill dolphins for fun then waste the bodies.