The Shifter With a Prize Inside
What in the name of Neptune’s beard is that thing? A ghost? An alien? The ghost of an alien? Such were the questions that vexed a team of deep-sea scientists aboard the Nautilus research vessel earlier this month, when their underwater recon robot encountered a limp, limbless creature hovering like a ghostly lantern over the Pacific seafloor. As the team watched, the bell-shaped blob suddenly transformed, ballooning into a long, translucent windsock with a mysterious red splotch stuck to its innards. The blob, the researchers revealed in a recent video of the encounter, was no alien (it’s never aliens), but … Read more
