Top 5 Weirdest Sea Creatures Ever!!

They're weird in good ways, and they're weird in bad ways. But most importantly, they're just WEIRD. Really weird. And frankly, we felt like we were being totally selfish not sharing them with you. So put on your snorkel, goggles, and flippers, and hit the water with us to check out the absolute weirdest (but coolest!) sea creatures. But we're warning you—if our choices' names alone are any indication, it definitely won't be pretty. Case in point, Number 10 ...

And be sure to check out the Top 10 Weirdest Sea Creatures' cousins— the Top 10 Scariest Sea Creatures.

No. 1 - Blobfish

In case you ever wondered where the creator ofZiggy came up with the artistic concept, wonder no more. This fish (if "fish" we can really call it) is the weirdest looking sea creature we've ever seen. What's worse is that this animal is just as lazy as it looks and sounds...it barely expends any energy even eating, making sure it gobbles up whatever just happens to be floating by at the moment. So maybe a little less Ziggy ... a little more Al Bundy. Either way, it makes us seriously think about our carb intake............

GIANT BUBBLES FOUND IN SPACE!!

An ancient eruption of a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way may have inflated two huge bubbles of gamma rays which were just now discovered and are considered a new type of astronomical object.

"It shows, once again, that the universe is full of surprises," said Jon Morse, director of astrophysics at NASA headquarters.

Combined, the bubbles, which are aligned at the center of the Milky Way, span a vast distance of about 50,000 light-years. The structures are very distinct, with defined edges, and have as much energy in them as 100,000 supernova.

They were found with NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope, which surveys the sky every three hours for the highest-energy light.

Among the 1,500 sources of gamma rays Fermi has mapped so far, nothing resembles the bubble-shaped structures, which stretch across more than half of the visible sky, from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus.

THIS DIAMOND PLANET WILL LAST FOREVER

Astronomers have found the remains of a once-massive star, now transformed into a solid diamond five times bigger than Earth.

The object circles a pulsing companion star about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens (The Snake), which lies about one-eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers noticed that the steady pulses of energy coming from the star, known as J1719-1438, were regularly and minutely disturbed, a phenomenon caused by the gravitational tug of another, smaller circling object.

NEWS: Planet in the Sky With Diamonds

By measuring the pattern, scientists were able to figure out how far away the second object circles and its mass, leading to the realization that they had found a bizarre binary system, with one partner reduced to a diamond core.

CAN ELECTRIC CARS WIN OVER THE MASS MARKET?

It's not every day that a U.S. governor accepts an invitation to the launch of a Japanese-built car, but Nissan's all-electric Leaf offers environmental credentials that top any nationalistic concerns.

"Illinois is laying the groundwork for electric vehicles and a more green economy, and our efforts are paying off," Governor Pat Quinn said Thursday, as he thanked Nissan for bringing the Leaf to his state months earlier than originally planned.

"By investing in electric vehicle technology, both the state of Illinois and Nissan are making transportation in our state more efficient, sustainable and affordable."

The first mass-market electric vehicle has won some high-profile fans since it was launched in Japan and a handful of U.S. markets in December, and in Europe earlier this year.

NEWS: Electric Car Can Power Home

The Leaf emits none of the tailpipe pollutants that have covered city skies in smog and is touted as a step forward from gas-electric hybrids produced by the likes of Toyota, which makes the best-selling Prius.

BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA THRIVES IN WARM, FRESH WATER!!

The brain-eating amoeba that killed three people this summer is an organism that thrives in warm fresh water and can be found in lakes, rivers, hot springs and soil, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

All three deaths this year occurred in the South: a 16-year-old girl in Florida, a 9-year-old boy in Virginia and a 20-year-old man in Louisiana.

A brutal summer and drought make the conditions perfect for the amoeba. The threat of N. fowleri could potentially be elevated for weeks in some areas. According to the CDC, infections occur mainly in July, August and September.

Building your own personal nuclear reactor

I've heard of people who got in trouble with their landlords for holding loud parties or violating the no-pets clause in their leases, but a 31-year-old Swedish guy named Richard Handl may be the first apartment dweller in history to have problems because he tried to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen. According to Handl's blog, Richard's Reactor, he began a project to build a breeder reactor and produce small amounts of fissionable uranium 233 and plutonium 239 "just for fun and to see if it's possible to split atoms at home."

City cycle schemes save lives and cut down CO2

LONDON: Public bicycle sharing schemes such as Barcelona's "Bicing " program or London's "Boris Bikes" save lives and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study.

Bike schemes are becoming increasingly popular in cities around the world, with more than 360 already running, but their main aim is usually to ease congestion rather than boost health.

Researchers at the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona found in a study, however, that around 9,000 tons of carbon dioxide pollution are averted and some 12 lives saved each year by Barcelona's scheme, which was introduced in March 2007.

Figure it out: Math ability is inborn!

LONDON: Ever wondered why some people are good at mathematics while many struggle with numbers? It's because they were probably born that way, scientists say.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University inBaltimore found that mathematical talent does not appear to be linked to all-round intelligence.

The ability to work with numbers may be something that is entirely predestined - either you have it or you don't, they said.

‘Meteorites helped create life on Earth’

WASHINGTON: Scientists have found components of DNA, the building blocks of life on Earth, in meteorites, a discovery they say confirms the theory that at least some of the materials needed to make early life forms came to our planet from space.

In the Nasa-funded study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists used advanced mass spectrometry instruments to scan 11 organic-rich meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites and one ureilite, a very rare meteorite with a different chemical composition . They found three nucleobases - purine, 6,8-diaminopurine and 2,6-diaminopurine - that are widely distributed in carbonaceous chondrites and which are "rare or absent in terrestrial biology" , said the researchers. 

A TRUE STORY OF ASTRONOMY IN THE DESERT

Sometime around the age of thirteen, I decided that I wanted to be an astronomer. (Thank you, Carl Sagan, for your inspiring character in Ellie Arroway.) If getting to explore the universe isn't enough of a job perk, I've also had the opportunity to travel quite a bit to collaborate with other astronomers and to present at conferences. In June, my reach extended even further as I took a three-week trip to South Africa to help build one of the most exciting astronomical experiments to date.

UNIDENTIFIED SUNKEN OBJECT: PROBABLY NOT ALIEN

A team of Swedish researchers has found what some are calling a UFO under about 300 feet of water between Finland and Sweden. According to a piece in the Vancouver Sun,

"While using sonar to survey the Gulf of Bothnia last month, Ocean Explorer commander Peter Lindberg noticed an unusual 60-foot round object. According to the Ocean Explorer website, Lindberg said he had "never seen anything like it" even though has "spent hundreds of hours watching sonar images of the sea floor." While the object seems unusual, it's entirely possible that it could have occurred naturally. Lindberg refused to speculate on the object's origins, but in doing so he may have generated even more conjecture, making reference to one of the most famous and mysterious sites in the world "Since it might be nothing we cannot afford spending funds just to have a look at it," he adds. "Even if it might be a 'new' Stonehenge standing on the bottom."

Top 5 Volcanic Eruptions

Most of us don't live near enough to volcanoes to think about them on a regular basis, but some scientists have spent a lot of time studying them and trying to understand their fickle ways. These days, we can often see the bad news coming, since most volcanoes send off a few warning shots before they erupt. That's a good thing, too, because when they blow go ... get out of the way!

No. 1 - Unzen, Japan

 

Mount Unzen's biggest eruption happened way back in 1792, when, along with a related tsunami, it killed 15,000 people. The Japanese volcano was largely quiet for the next 200 years or so. And then Unzen began to rumble. It started to ooze lava a couple weeks before it violently erupted in 1991, killing 43 people, including a group of scientists and reporters, and forcing the evacuation of thousands of homes. It remained active, releasing lava and ash until about 1995. Since then, it's been getting some much-needed rest.