Search results for Ivan T. Sanderson

Workers opened a whale in 1937 and found something inside that still doesn't have a name

In August 1937, workers at the Naden Harbor whaling station in Haida Gwaii were cutting up a harpooned sperm whale when they found something in its gut that nobody recognized. Ten...

Tierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfish

In the open ocean, far from coasts and categories, there is a fish that seems to defy the logic of design. It is round where others are tapered, truncated where others trail into a...

The 1960 blob that gave all mystery blobs their name

In August 1960, something washed ashore on a remote beach in western Tasmania, about two miles north of the Interview River. It was 20 feet wide, 18 feet long, weighed somewhere be...

The Most Extraordinary Geographic Secrets of Australia’s Strangest Island

The History of South Atlantic’s Remote Bouvet Island: Shrouded in Mystery — Secure In Remoteness

The South Atlantic’s Bouvet Island doesn’t have deadly snakes, un-contacted tribes, the risk of radiation poisoning or past human wartime horrors. It’s story is frozen i...

Shark or sea monster? The Canadian marine mystery that still intrigues experts 90 years on

Debate continues to rage over whether a strange carcass found in 1937 was a new species or a basking shark. Either way, the case reveals how little is known about what lies beneath...

Who even saw this coming?

http://shor.by/NRIy [Please Reshare This Post!] The Biggest LIMITED Release This Summer! The ocean remembers things. That’s the problem. Men charted it, named it, crossed it i...

A Definitive List Of History’s Creepiest Cryptids — And Where They Allegedly Live

You've heard about Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster, but they're far from the only cryptids with bone-chilling backstories. The post A Definitive List Of History’s Creepiest Cry...

A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens

In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habita...

More than 100 deep-sea creatures discovered in Coral Sea

Marine species were found by researchers onboard research vessel Investigator

A 'Golden Orb' on the Ocean Floor Came From a Mysterious Animal

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.

Ghost shark, carnivorous sponge among 1,000+ newly discovered marine species

The third year of a global Ocean Census has revealed 1,121 potentially new-to-science marine species, including a worm that lives inside a “glass castle,” a ghost shark, and a carn...

The Rarest Fish on Earth Lives in a Hole in the Mojave Desert

Inside The Mystery Of The ‘Montauk Monster’ That Washed Ashore In Long Island

In the summer of 2008, locals in the New York hamlet of Montauk were shaken by the discovery of a bloated and bloodless creature they couldn't identify. It was dubbed the "Montauk...

The Secret Wonders of the World’s Third Largest Island

Born Before The USA? A Look At the World’s Oldest Sharks

What’s really being hidden beneath Antarctica?

Much has already been said about the strange and unexplained activity surrounding the frozen continent. In a recent discussion, Redacted revisits several of these mysteries and rai...

Species thought extinct for thousands of years ‘rediscovered’ thanks to Indigenous knowledge

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. On a remote peninsula in Indonesian Papua, a spe...

The ‘Alligator Ladies’ of Hammersmith and Chertsey. Who they were and what came next

This article is a follow up to two I posted in 2022:STRANGE CARGO, the 1952 film: 'Riding the Alligator' and' Hatching the Tortoise'...and its return to the Densham familyThe ‘Alli...

In the Beginning: Beast of Burden

In the Beginning by Alan Sullivan In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s now-classic novel of 1912, The Lost World, a quartet of Englishmen travel to the Amazon basin and discover a passel of...

Unveiling Doggerland: Ancient Forests of the North Sea's Lost World Revealed by Sedimentary DNA

Ancient DNA from North Sea sediments uncovers Doggerland's ancient forests—oak, elm, and hazel thriving 16,000 years ago in this lost Ice Age landmass linking Britain to Europe

From ‘ghost sharks’ to ‘death ball’ sponges: Scientists find more than 1,100 wild and unusual ocean species

Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and a carnivorous “death ball” sponge. These are just three of the 1,121 “previo...

Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman who filmed animals in extreme environments

There are moments in natural-history films when the camera seems improbably close: a polar bear’s breath fogging the lens, a seal’s eye lingering, an orca pod moving with intent be...

Vengeful Spirits Of People Who Perished At Sea But Still Need New Companions

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once, they were ordinary sailors or fishermen who died at sea or were drowned in the water during other dramatic circumstances. Their spirits nev...