Though experts have put forward several theories about what the globster of Simberi Island could have been, no one knows for sure.New Irelanders Only/FacebookExperts have speculated that the deceased animal could have been a whale, dolphin, or perhaps a shark. Locals of Simberi Island in Papua New Guinea were baffled to find a strange glob of white flesh on the beach last month. Ghostly pale and shaped like a mermaid, the “globster” has also stumped experts who have speculated that it could have been anything from a dolphin to a shark.

These little-seen photos reveal a secret Cold War test conducted by the U.S. government to show what nuclear annihilation would look like. Mannequin mother and her brood, before the blast.Wikimedia Commons/United States Department of Energy Car with graffiti before the blast.Wikimedia Commons/United States Department of Energy Mannequin couple in a test car, pre-devastation.Wikimedia Commons/United States Department of Energy Lady mannequin in car before the blast.Wikimedia Commons/United States Department of Energy Mannequin passenger sits tight as inspectors comb the area, pre-blast.

You may think you have some irrational fears, but wait until you read about these weird phobias — which are more common than you probably thought. Mortuusequusphobia: The fear of ketchup. While extremely rare, there are at least a few cases of people who are very uneasy around the famous red condiment. One sufferer said, "I'm more scared of Heinz 57 than I am of death."Pexels Koumpounophobia: The fear of buttons.

These interesting World War 2 facts reveal a different side to history's most devastating conflict.Fewer than 25 years after the first world war threatened the globe with total annihilation, the human race once again saw itself collapsing into yet another worldwide crisis of unparalleled proportions. Starting in 1939, Nazi Germany began ransacking Europe, with countries falling to Axis forces like dominoes. By the time Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the U.

These drawings of sea creatures show how naturalists of centuries past first documented their discoveries — and they're as magical today as they were to the scientists who first saw them. These so-called butterfly fish were drawn by ichthyologist Mary Margaret Smith for her 1949 textbook The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. When she could find no suitable illustrations to accompany her book, Smith took on the task of drawing the images she needed herself.