45 Strange Bits of Science That’ll Make You Wonder If Mother Nature Is Just Screwing With Us
Calling nature “unnatural” is a massive oxymoron, but we really don’t know what else to call its more peculiar happenings. It’s probably our own beefed-up egos telling us that the way we experience the world around us is “normal.”
Things like the quantum realm, distant space, the deep sea and all those creepy, slimy little things in far-off lands are really hard to wrap our egos around (as big as they are). But these better start making sense soon if they ever hope to be normal like us!
Manatees
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The Sea Pig
Plant Predators
Source: CNN
Mating Rituals
Sea Foam
Baby Planet
Source: CBS News
Hatchetfish
Cicadas
Source: CNET
Cyborg Beetles
Saved by Slugs
The Big Splat
The Scientific Method
Water in Space
The Russian Space Program
The Caribbean Sea Sings
Newts in Space
Dinosaurs
The Bald Eagle
Fossils
The Deep Sea
Source: Eos
Jain Cosmology
Dolphins
Ecosystems
Whiptails
Wasps
Theories on the Universe
Steady-State Universe
Mating Rituals
Source: time
Space Hurricanes
Source: Science Daily
Flatworms
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Yeti Crabs
Source: Smithsonian
Old Science
Sea Snakes
Source: USA Today
Eyes
Early Animals
Source: Science Daily
Sea Bunnies
Leopard Slugs
Penguins
Sharks and Cancer
Hens
European Magpies
The DSV Alvin
Micro-Earthquakes
Coral Sperm
Source: National Geographic