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Found: Three Dozen Giant, Mysterious Disks of Compressed Trash

They smelled.
Sarah Laskow May 17, 2017
Clearfin lionfish.
science

The First Step to Getting Rid of Invasive Lionfish? Listen Closely ...

Scientists have recorded the "roar" of the unwanted reef predators.
Samir S. Patel May 15, 2017
Permanently Closed
A model of a three-masted ship.
Baltimore, Maryland

Fell's Point Maritime Museum

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.
islands

Found: A Giant Decomposing Sea Creature

It’s probably a whale?
Sarah Laskow May 12, 2017
Rocks a few miles from Kick 'Em Jenny
Grenada

Kick 'Em Jenny

A violent name for a violent volcano.
Anemones make great accessories.
science

Watch Decorator Crabs Get Decked Out in Camouflage

When the perfect accessory is a matter of life and death.
Kelsey Kennedy May 11, 2017
A great white shark on the western cape of South Africa.
murder

Found: Three Dead Great White Sharks, Missing Their Livers

One was also missing its heart.
Sarah Laskow May 11, 2017
The wind creates a scaly formation.
wind

Found: Rare, Bizarre ‘Dragon-Skin Ice’

It's "evidence of a darker chaos," one scientist says.
Sarah Laskow May 8, 2017
Joan Blaeu, Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus
maps

Found: A Rare, 17th-Century Map of Australia

Created around 1659 by a Dutch cartographer, it's the first map to show Tasmania.
Sarah Laskow May 4, 2017
Sargasso
North Atlantic Ocean

Sargasso Sea

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.
The house on Fiskergade 82, where Drakenberg lived.
Aarhus, Denmark

Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg's Last Home

The final home of the legendary Danish sailor said to have lived to be 146 years old.
Vertebrae from a whale, shown about seven months after its carcass was placed at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. By this time, the bones were covered with a dense carpet of red Osedax ("bone devouring") worms.
science

Why Scientists Drag Dead Whales to the Bottom of the Sea

A fallen whale can fuel new life on the ocean floor.
Kevin Litman-Navarro April 21, 2017
The leaning lighthouse of Kiipsaare, off the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.
Saaremaa, Estonia

Kiipsaare Lighthouse

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.
The firefly squid lives up to its name.
bioluminescence

If You Live in the Ocean, Odds Are You're Glowing Right Now

Bioluminescence is the lingua franca of life in the seas, both shallow and deep.
Samir S. Patel April 12, 2017
Permanently Closed
Blaschka glass sea creature at the Corning Museum of Glass exhibit.
Ithaca, New York

Blaschka Glass Sea Creatures

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.
The Ross Ice Shelf.
mystery

Listening to Icebergs' Loud and Mournful Breakup Songs

Scientists are just learning to decode the sounds of icebergs.
Sarah Laskow April 5, 2017
A newly discovered worm snail.
shipwrecks

Found: An Invading Snail That Slings Slime at its Prey

It took up residence on the USNS Vandenberg, which was sunk as an artificial reef.
Sarah Laskow April 5, 2017
The moment the larger squid strikes!
horror

A Squid-on-Squid Ambush

Behold the horrors of the open ocean.
Eric Grundhauser April 3, 2017