REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo (PHILIPPINES)

It seems to me that every time scientists spend time looking at the oceans they find new species, and a recent expedition to the Philippines is no different. Over the last two years scientists from 19 countries documented, and in many cases filmed, thousands of crustaceans and mollusks. In fact 150-250 of the crustaceans and 1,500-2,500 of the mollusks observed were new species, including the giant lobster pictured above. The good news is that even after two years they're not done, as the French government has announced an expedition that will explore the area for the next five years. It should be interesting to see what they come up with!

The complexity of life in the oceans continues to show us just how little we know about the world we live on. A team of European scientists analyzing DNA in samples of seawater discovered an entirely new form of life. These new "picobiliphytes" are so different from anything else in the ocean one scientist said, "In fact, the divergence of this group from known organisms is as great as the difference between land plants and animals." And, yet, some people are so cocky as to think we know everything about the world and there's nothing left unexplained in our modern day of scientific knowledge...