Some 700m underwater, in oceans all over the globe there’s a strange fish hovering almost motionless, searching the waters for unsuspecting victims. They’ve been doing this since forever without most of us having the slightest clue of their existence. Then in 2004 someone managed to photograph the “Barreleye”, and it’s been freaking us out ever since.

Imagine a creature so astonishing that the first British scientists to study it from written reports, and preserved remains thought they were being pranked. One of them, George Shaw, reportedly hacked a preserved specimen apart with scissors to search for the taxidermist’s stitches. His training and experience convinced him that someone must have stitched a bunch of different animal parts together. If only he knew the whole of it.

Nothing lasts forever, especially modern technology. Have you noticed though, how often technology fails when there are other, more serious issues to deal with? Financial stress, health concerns and everything in between, all tend to get that little bit more difficult when some or other stupid device breaks down. Perhaps you know the feeling?

Were you well behaved at school, or did you push the boundaries? Can you remember getting caught and properly punished? I do. Vividly. I don’t remember what I did wrong, but I was in grade eight and new in school. My older sister had been there a while, and was in grade 12. Her class happened to be lined up and waiting for the teacher to whom I had been sent for corrective attention, no fun for a grade eight still drowning in an oversized uniform.

Why did a bunch of people go to such lengths to save one insignificant little bunny - from those who found her, fed her, donated money and got her to the vet, to the vet who treated her free-of-charge and adopted her. Why does Manna’s story so warm and encourage us? Perhaps we love a rescue. Perhaps somewhere deep down it resonates with our soul.

Even if marine biology doesn’t float your boat, keep reading, because there’s much to learn from the incredible Argonaut. It was long believed that they appropriated their spiral shell from some unfortunate creature in order to float away on it - raising up their tentacles to catch the wind. This was the widely accepted theory from Aristotle to just a few years back, even though it was never actually observed. Bizarre isn’t it? It’s not the only thing we’ve got wrong either.

It’s difficult to see anything special about Mallee fowl, the rather drab looking, chicken-sized Australian birds. Their singing doesn’t exactly turn heads either but the way that they nest and raise their young, is spectacular. Mallee fowl mate for life, and go about raising their families in a most surprising way.