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Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

With Halloween approaching, it's natural to wonder just a little bit more than usual about things that go "bump" in the night. But what about things that go "bloop" in the deep sea? Poltergeists, ...

It was the loudest sound ever recorded underwater, and its audio profile seemed to match an animal call. What as the Bloop and could an unidentified creature have made it? The ocean, so dark and ...

The 1997 Bloop baffled scientists and inspired conspiracy theories, fiction, and cryptid speculation for years. Initially too powerful to match any known animal or machine, it was finally traced to a ...

Was the infamous “bloop” a sea monster? Learn why this noise was a good reminder that we should keep an eye on the South Pole. Avery Hurt is a freelance science journalist who frequently writes for ...

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