Flying Whales, Other Aliens Theorized by Scientists

Stefan Lovgren
National Geographic Channel
for National Geographic News

May 20, 2005

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One side of the planet is draped in eternal freezing darkness, the other side is bathed in permanent starlight.

Fields of "stinger fans"—animals that look like tall plants—cover the floodplains. Other strange species abound, from giraffe-like predators called gulphogs to tiny flesh-dissolving tadpoles known as hysteria.

Welcome to the planet Aurelia.

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