marine life Giant string-like creature composed of "millions of interconnected clones" found off the coast of Australia Thom Dunn

Weird Meet the "werewolf mouse" who hunts scorpions and deadly centipedes and howls at the moon Gareth Branwyn

music Is this a Midicorn or a Unichord? Rob Beschizza

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

Cryptozoology Create your own cryptozoological beasts with this web app Rusty Blazenhoff

fashion The 'Kaiju Cage-Match' shirt shows smackdown of strange creatures Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants The OZORA music festival is a psychedelic tribal gathering I keep coming back to Ferdinando Buscema

futility closet In the 1810s Mary Anning begin to unearth strange creatures near her English seaside town Futility Closet

movies Actually, Solo is good David Mizejewski

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

dinosaurs 10 things you’ll be surprised to learn about dinosaurs Mark Frauenfelder

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

art The "best children’s book illustrator in Italy" is coming to Los Angeles with a new painting exhibition Sarina Frauenfelder

Southern Reach Trilogy The Strange Bird – an excerpt from Jeff VanderMeer's new Borne story Jeff VanderMeer

trump Only Mexico City has the cojones for the Trump/They Live Billboard! Mark Frauenfelder

music "Little Bugs" video features this quirky animated figure Andrea James

Kids Flashlight fish have glowing lanterns below their eyes Andrea James

fake news Hillary Clinton’s a Russian spy, Jennifer Aniston’s sex swap shame, and own your own alien – in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Google's aborted Ara phone was supposed to launch with an aquarium module full of wriggling tardigrades Cory Doctorow

fake news Forget “alternative facts.” This week’s tabloids shoot for an entire alternate universe Peter Sheridan