STRANGE

Here are 5 strange marine life forms recently spotted during a NOAA mission.

There’s a unique species of aquatic animal that appears eyeless and is believed to live in one specific area in the world. It is the Texas blind salamander, a translucent creature of about three to five inches in length, whose existence was first recorded in the 1890s.

Remember the goblin shark? That’s old news compared to these unusual finds.

An adorable stubby squid was recently spotted by the E/V Nautilus crew off the shore of California.

During a recent exploration of the waters near the Channel Islands, the crew of the E/V Nautilus encountered a truly mysterious purple orb just floating amid some rocks.

NOAA researchers with the Okeanos Explorer expedition recently captured a video of a glowing shrimp with some crazy antennae.

Here are 10 of the strangest deep sea creatures recently spotted by ocean explorers.

During a dive near the California coastline, the E/V Nautilus team captured footage of a siphonophore in action.

The oceans are home to many fascinating and dazzling creatures, and recently NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer team captured a mesmerizing video of one of them.

Goblin shark is the world’s strangest shark. Nicknamed the “alien of the deep,” its mouth is full of thin, prickly and jagged teeth.

The NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer mission has encountered quite a few life forms during the 2016 Hohonu Moana expedition.

NASA scientists are intrigued about a strange feature on Pluto’s largest moon Charon that one member has described as “a large mountain sitting in a moat.”

Laguna Colorada, a lake that’s brown-orange in color, was recently photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

The most perplexing part was how smooth the sides were. No evidence of machinery approaching the site could be discerned.

You’re about to see a video of a bizarre creature of the deep so rare and mysterious it’s been dubbed the “Unicorn of the Sea.”

Sun bears, which call the tropical forests of Southeast Asia home, are the smallest known animals in the bear family. Images and videos of an unusual looking sun bear in Malaysia have gone viral.

The ocean is a vast body of mysterious wonders, many that have yet to be discovered. Unlike the mythical Loch Ness Monster, sea dragons, or mermaids, the actual beings discovered are often stranger than fiction.

The Kashmir musk deer were known to live in areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and had not been spotted in 60 years, until now.

The nose of a certain pig in Jilin, China looks far different from what we typically see. The tiny piglet was born without a mouth, but it did however have a snout.

An ‘alien’ creature emerged from the Rocky River in Ohio Friday and has been moved to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, but not before doing some damage.