THE array of baffling creatures in the briny deep is enough to scare the waders off even the hardiest old sea dog.
The Sun looks through just some of the most jaw-dropping examples of mystery critters to have come to the surface in recent times.
Experts at the University of Rotterdam confirmed it was the first case of conjoined twin porpoises ever discovered and only the tenth known case within cetaceans — a group of sea mammals which includes whales and dolphins.
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Dr Tim O’Hara said: “This little fish looks amazing because the mouth is actually situated at the bottom of the animal so, when you look side-on, you can’t see any eyes, you can’t see any nose or gills or mouth.
A mysterious mass washed up on Hulung Beach on Indonesia's Seram Island in May was rumoured to be the corpse of an enormous squid.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries in West Seram said: With sperm whales, when they decay, the intestines will come out through the bottom of the throat, which is striped like a pumpkin, and they become curved.
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Sarah Perry from Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre said: This is definitely a mega swarm. I have never seen them this big before.”
A crustacean-laden mass was found on New Zealand beach last December — sparking fears that a hairy beast was slowly crawling onto land.
The person who stumbled across the carcass was left so dumbfounded they took snaps of it to share online and ask if anyone knew what it was.
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Mysterious 10ft-long sea serpents were washing up on beaches in the Philippines in advance of devastating earthquakes — leading locals to think they could predict the future.
There are several instances that people had sightings of oarfishes prior to an Earthquake, including the Earthquake and Tsunami that happened in Japan, Chile, Haiti and now in Surigao Ph, one theorist wrote.Were These Sea Creatures Washed Up by a Tsunami? These deep-sea creatures were not found scattered throughout the wreckage pf a tsunami.
In the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, just about any unusual or remarkable photographs connected with oceanic phenomena were being attributed to that disaster, and the following collection of pictures was a prime example:
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Phuket Deep Sea Creatures - Found At Seaside After TSUNAMI As everyone knows, the tsunami in Southeast Asia was devastating both in the loss of life and economically to the region. However now that the clean up is underway in the region, deep sea creatures that live too deep to be studied are being found scattered throughout the wreckage. These creatures were washed up on shore when the waves hit. Amazing what lives so far below the surface isn't it? It is ironic how terrible human tragedy and natural disaster can lead to unprecedented expansion of scientific knowledge. The theory is the tsunami created enough vertical currents to sweep these deep living creatures to the surface quickly. The gases in their blood expanded rapidly causing death (like divers ascending too quickly).
The same set of pictures was dusted off in April 2011 and attributed to the tsunami that hit Japan the previous month:
Creatures Found At Seaside After JAPAN TSUNAMI Everyone knows, the tsunami in Japan was devastating, both in the loss of life and economically to the region. However, now that the cleanup is underway in the region, deep sea creatures that live too deep to be studied are being found scattered throughout the wreckage. These creatures were washed up on shore when the waves hit.
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Although these pictures are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, the photographs had nothing to do with a tsunami in the Indian Ocean or Japan. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.A monstrously huge creature that washed ashore on a remote Indonesian beach, oozing a mysterious red fluid, is probably a baleen whale in an advanced state of decomposition, experts said.
The nearly 50-foot-long marine creature was lying on Hulung Beach on Seram Island, Indonesia, and was first discovered by 37-year-old local resident Asrul Tuanakota, who initially mistook the creature for a boat, the Jakarta Globe reported.
There is lots of stuff in the ocean that we don't know about — but there's nothing that big that remains unknown, Werth said.
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Two dead giveaways revealed that the creature was a whale, Werth said: the grooves, or throat pleats, and the upper jaw where the two racks ofbaleen plates, used for filtering out food in the whale's mouth, would have been. [Whale Photos: Giants of the Deep]
, it's not clear exactly which species it is: It could be either ablue whaleor aBryde's whale, Werth said. However, Bryde's whales are not usually that big. The creature could also be a fin whale, said Moe Flannery, the collections manager in ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences. (The creature is definitely not a humpback, she added.)
Scientists are not exactly sure what washed up the Indonesian sea animal is, but biologist Alexander Werth said it could be a blue whale (pictured here). NOAA Fisheries
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Thebeached whaleis clearly in an advanced state of decomposition and likely has been dead for anywhere from two weeks to several months, Werth and Flannery said. The decomposition, and the gases produced by the associated bacteria, have inflated segments of the carcass like a balloon, Werth said.
Baleen whales typically have many bacteria in their guts that produce gas, Werth said. These keep reproducing once the whale dies, creating a foul stench and inflating the bodies, he said.
That's yet another reason you don't want to be close to these things, not because it's a scary, spooky creature, but [because] it would just be releasing some pretty foul, noxious gases, Werth said.
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Though smelling the decomposing whale is not dangerous per se, people shouldn't be bathing in or drinking the water nearby, he added.
Normally, when a massive whale dies, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean, where the corpse serves as a feast for a year or two for an entire ecosystem of worms, hagfish, sharks and other marine creatures, Werth said.
However, if a ship swiped the animal, causing internal injuries that did not allow gases to escape, or if the whale had a bacterial infection that produced huge amounts of gases, the animal could inflate like a balloon — enough to float to shore, Werth said. On the other hand, this ill-fated whale may simply have died in warm waters, which tend to fuel more bacterial growth. That, too, could rapidly produce enough gas after death to make the animal float rather than sink, Werth said.
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This phenomenon is not unique to whales: Two human bodies that presumably were submerged during colder weatherpopped up in a Central Park pondin New York during warmer weather, Werth said.
While it's tough to determine a cause of death in an animal in such an advanced state of decomposition, some clues can still be gleaned from the carcass, Flannery said. For instance, if a ship struck the whale, signs of trauma such as fractured ribs would still be apparent. Identifying a bacterial infection would be difficult this far after decomposition. However, if the animal died of domoic acid toxicity, sometimes caused by algal blooms, a urine sample could reveal that, Flannery added.
At the least, researchers always try to take a tissue sample, which contains DNA that would reveal the species of whale and the gender, she said.
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As for the reddish tinge in the water surrounding the whale, that is probably a combination of blood and grease, Flannery said.
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