This Worm Week, we're featuring the strange, Demogorgon-looking deep-sea bristle worm Alvinella pompejana, better known as the Pompeii Worm due to its reliance on hydrothermal vents.

posted by newtboy 7 months 1 week ago • 77 views • 4:29

You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you... continue reading

posted by BSR 10 months ago • 81 views • 13:12

I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half. As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games),... continue reading

posted by moonsammy 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 496 views • 10:15

YouTube description: Tropical storms can be devastating but at least we usually know where they're going to appear. The exception being a very strange week in 1996, on Lake Huron.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months ago • 185 views • 3:42

YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 358 views • 2:30

This strange creature was only discovered by marine biologists in 2007 during a deep water expedition. Teuthidodrilus, commonly known as the "Squidworm", is just as flamboyant as it is strange in appearance.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 774 views • 3:38

In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months ago • 98 views • 6:51

A lot of things happen on Earth, but there are still some things that just don't ever happen here. But, that doesn't mean that what's impossible here is impossible everywhere else in the universe. ... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 3 weeks ago • 486 views • 7:24

"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 656 views • 9:22

YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 496 views • 6:19

YT: There's a reason music videos look strange. I could just talk about framerate, cuts and continuity... or I could get an actual music video director. And a leaf blower.

posted by Lumm 3 years 10 months ago • 383 views • 3:05

Some of my favourite Australian animals (they're cute, and don't try to kill you). YouTube description: It’s pretty well known that Australia is home to some strange animals, but echidnas are especially... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 424 views • 6:37

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months ago • 605 views • 8:27

YouTube: In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms.

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 11 months ago • 668 views • 5:25

"... Deconstructed". "Deep sea creatures look so..... odd? But why? ..."

posted by ant 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 26 views • 6:37

I've filmed a paternoster lift; I've filmed the strange Genoa elevator that sort-of goes sideways. So when I got an email from Thyssenkrupp, an elevator company, saying "come and see our Multi elevator... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,308 views • 4:21

YouTube description: You may think of single-celled organisms as being microscopically small, but these ocean dwellers are a little heftier than that. Hosted by: Hank Green... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 213 views • 3:27

YouTube description: Watching paint be made is so strangely soothing. Thanks to M. Graham paints: http://mgraham.com/ (via digg)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 26 views • 1:58