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Home of the strange and mysterious.

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New terror I conceived at the steep plunge.

Gustave Doré, from Dante’s Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, New York, circa 1866.

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This awesome creature is a Leptocephalus and it might just be the most perfectly transparent animal we’ve ever seen. According to all-knowing virtual guru that is Wikipedia, “Leptocephalus (meaning “slim head”) is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the Superorder Elopomorpha.”

We think they might also be secret underwater superheroes. 

Photo from the Mie Prefecture Fisheries Institute

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Most people think that Atlantis sank under the ocean, but There are many opinions about were Atlantis really is or if even exists.

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This photo here shows that some people think that Atlantis was a super advanced city that is also a spaceship with a bubble-like shield to keep in the atmosphere and can travel faster then the speed of light (FTL). This all comes from the syfy show Stargate Atlantis.

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The beautiful Atlantis.

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The central sun is made out of crystal