Discovering The Seas

Are legends of mermaids and mermen based on something real? If so, stories dating back to the first writings are nothing like the Little Mermaid.  Sinde 1988, more than 16,000 people have vanished in a triangular area, the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." The missing person rate is twice the national average, with...

A strange alien-looking creature spreading across the world's oceans is practically immortal. It's Turritopsis dohrnii, the "immortal jellyfish" that can avoid death when stressed. In a manner that's similar to a butterfly reverting to a caterpillar, the jellyfish reverts to its coral-like polyp stage. Then, it goes on to become a jellyfish again,...

YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvAvN5xn5oY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1 Deep in the heart of northern Kansas, researchers excavated farmland that used to be under the ocean and ended up finding a brand new species of shark that lurked beneath the surface around 91 million years ago. During the middle to the late Cretaceous period, the region...