2023's Unforgettable Animal Encounters: Mystery Orbs, Tree-Dwelling Shrimp, and Moon-Worshiping Hammerhead Sharks

The year 2023 brought a plethora of bizarre animal news, including sea spiders that can regrow complex body parts, the discovery of the cause behind mysterious octagons on the seabed, cartwheeling snakes as a defense mechanism, a new species of alien-like Antarctic feather star, hammerhead sharks gathering in large numbers during the full moon, a strange golden orb found on the seabed off Alaska, three-eyed dinosaur shrimp appearing at Burning Man, tree-dwelling shrimp found in Indonesia, and the rediscovery of a mole species believed to be lost since 1936.