These weird creatures were found in an abandoned foundation pit in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.

Looking like glass tulips, these tunicates are actually animals-early seafloor colonizers in areas of the Southern Ocean recently disturbed by iceberg scouring.

An image of the Oar fish. Its dragon-like appearance was probably responsible for some alleged sea monster sightings.

This weird rare pre-historic shark was found in Japan, particularly in Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo. It looked like an eel. It was brought to a marine park’s seawater pool in Japan. However it died just hours thereafter.

Kiwa hirsuta is a crustacean discovered in 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean. This decapod, which is approximately 15 cm (6 inches) long, is notable for the quantity of silky blond setae (resembling fur) covering its pereiopods (thoracic legs, including claws). Its discoverers dubbed it the “yeti lobster” or “yeti crab.”

A weird creature was found washed up on a beach in New York.

This one weighed in at an incredible 646 pounds! Widely reported as the largest totally freshwater fish ever recorded.

An 11-year-old boy used a .50-calibre pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 476 kilograms and measured 2.74 metres from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

The 44-inch, 60-pound female shortraker rockfish was caught last month by the catcher-processor Kodiak Enterprise as it trawled for pollock 2,100 feet below the surface, south of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.

The 30-foot-long (10-meter) squid, snagged on a fishing line off Antarctica in 2007 (photo), carried some partially developed eggs. But when fully mature, he said, she would have had “many, many thousands of eggs” inside her mantle cavity, a chamber inside her tubular upper body.

Originally posted 2009-10-09 10:41:49.

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