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
Sea Slugs
