New Creature

Annie Davidson sent this video of a new siphonophore, more beautiful and odder than a Portuguese Man o' War, the only well- known member of the family. Was it Arthur Wilderson who recently observed that the ocean's abyss is full of "new" life forms, as odd as anything in science fiction?

One more from Cap'n Rick

Whale breeching near tuna boat. Rick: "I have hours of whale videos and every day we go for tuna it's a spectacular whale show. Here's a pic I took-- when the whale landed everyone in the boat got soaked!"