Weird and wonderful: Mysterious creature stuns onlookers
The sea is big, scary and full of things that want to eat you.
If you ever find yourself in doubt as to whether or not to go in the water, it can be helpful to remember the sheer number of giant teeth, suckers and appendages-yet-unknown-to-science that live in it.
In Taiwan a mystery creature was filmed, which looks like something we might expect to see on the Ghostbusters film. Uploader Wei Cheng Jian claims he encountered it while fishing in a port in Penghu, and shared the clip to his Facebook page soon afterwards.
The green mass seems like to be some kind of ribbon worm, but poor Wei Cheng Jian remains unsure, and more than a little nervous!
Other instances of grim and discerning creatures have left us equally baffled and slightly terrified.
When an enormous oarfish washed up on the Californian coast, observers were rightly stunned.
But we know what an oarfish is (even if we honestly would prefer it didn’t exist). Some of these other horrifying sea monsters seem to confound attempts at explanation.
Are they throwbacks from millions of years ago? Are they Hell beasts unleashed from the depths of Hades by angry gods bent on punishing us?
Or are they just misunderstood cuddly creatures who deep down inside just want to be our friends?
Well, they can find their own friends.
If none of these unholy abominations resurface from the darkness of the Mariana Trench for another five millennia it will be five millennia too soon.
