The weekly weird

Published August 8, 2015

Bizarre new species discovered on ocean floor

SCIENTISTS have found many strange creatures as they explored a volcano off the coast of Australia and a bizarre fanged ‘blackfish’ is among the many new weird species discovered.

Scientists with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) took the snap on a research voyage. Apart from the scaleless blackfish, experts discovered an eel-like idiacanthidae and the chauliodontidae with huge front teeth.

Professor Iain Suthers, a marine biologist and chief scientist on the voyage, said the discovery alter the way researchers study younger fish.

“We had thought fish only developed in coastal estuaries, and that once larvae were swept out to sea, that was end of them,” he said. “But in fact, these eddies are nursery grounds for commercial fisheries along the east coast of Australia.”

Four extinct volcanoes on the ocean-floor were also found during the research trip.


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Don’t mess with this giant kangaroo!

YOU wouldn’t want to meet this kangaroo even in the day light! Because this giant creature, named Roger, stands at a massive 2.07 metres (or 6ft 9ins) tall and weighs a whopping 14 stone (almost 90kg).

And if that wasn’t enough, the terrifyingly muscular marsupial has the strength and power of a kick-boxer, and isn’t shy about letting people know when he’s not happy. In fact, one of Roger’s favourite pastimes involves chasing his dedicated keeper every time he ‘invades’ the kangaroo’s enclosure.

Roger, who lives in The Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs, Australia, also works out every day — with an exercise regime that includes crushing tin buckets.

Unbelievably, Roger is only nine-years-old. Red kangaroo life expectancy can be as high as 22 years.

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