Scientists reached the bottom of the Red Sea and what they found was startling.

If you thought we had collectively searched most of the sea as a human race, you’d be wrong.

In fact, only five percent of the ocean has been explored... and it’s easy to see why when you take the dreaded 'death pools' into account.

There’s always going to be something scary lurking in the deepest darkest parts of the ocean, but you wouldn’t think that something more sinister would be lying in wait to get you.

Warning: If you’ve got a phobia of the deep blue (or red) sea, now is the time to promise yourself that you’ll never visit it in your life.

The Red Sea is full of mysteries (Getty Stock Images)

Particularly, don’t go into it, or you might not return.

The deep sea holds many frightful fish like the scry fangtooth, gulper eel, goblin shark, vampire squid and anglerfish, but that’s not what’s the worst part.

With those beasts you at least know what you face - OK, the vampire squid isn't really that scary but sounds it.

Well, research is being carried out by scientists looking into the bottom of the Red Sea, which is located in the Middle East between Africa and Asia.

A research team sent divers and probes down to explore, but what they actually uncovered was 'death pools'.

Just the name of them sends chills down your spine, but what are they?

Discovered at the depth of the sea inlet, part of the Indian Ocean, they are holes that go beyond the sea bed and they hold no oxygen at all and are extraordinarily salty, so most life can't survive there.

The brine pools can kill (Ocean X/YouTube)

Why is that frightening? Well, there are opportunistic predators that lurk there ready to snap up breakfast, lunch and dinner - if any bamboozled creatures happen upon them.

Professor Sam Purkis, chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, explained fish that stumble into the brine pools are 'immediately stunned or killed', and predators camp out near the holes to 'feed on the unlucky'.

But it turns out the discovery of these chilling, mysterious trenches hold vital information into life on Earth as we know it.

Many fish made the mistake of swimming into it (Ocean X/YouTube)

Purkis said: "Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic - without oxygen - conditions.

"Studying this community hence allows a glimpse into the sort of conditions where life first appeared on our planet, and might guide the search for life on other 'water worlds' in our solar system and beyond."

So unearthing these pools will actually aid in space exploration.

What also offers a great insight is into 'life before life' is the fact that there are so few living things in these pits, meaning we have a rare window into the distant past.

He added: "Ordinarily, these animals bioturbate or churn up the seabed, disturbing the sediments that accumulate there. Not so with the brine pools. Here, any sedimentary layers that settle to the bed of the brine pool remain exquisitely intact."

I'm sure we're going to be hearing a lot more about these death pools, and as long as I'm not exploring myself then... bring it on nature.

When you think of scientific discoveries, a lot of people's minds immediately turn to the more outlandish finds.

Like the missing continent of Zealandia or the massive 'ocean' beneath Earth's surface.

However, some of the most impressive scientific discoveries have come from within ourselves.

Given how long we've been around, you'd think we'd have learned everything there is to know about the human body.

However in 2020, scientists somehow stumbled upon an entire organ that they'd never actually spotted before.

The team working on the study in the Netherlands were actually studying prostate cancer whey they came across the mysterious organ.

Scientists accidentally discovered the new organ. (YouTube/Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek)

And somehow it's located just beneath the face, so we've been staring at it the whole time.

At this point, you may be wondering how a team studying prostate cancer ended up discovering an organ in the human head, considering those are two different ends of the body.

Well, it all went down after the scientists at the Netherlands Cancer Institute conducted a series of CT and PET scans on patients who had been injected with radioactive glucose that makes tumours glow on the scans.

As they studied the scans, the team noticed two areas within the heads were lighting up, suggesting a set of salivary glands were tucked away in there.

When they managed to track down the organ, the team gave it the catchy name of the 'tubarial salivary gland'.

The glands can be found behind the nose; in the nook where the nasal cavity meets the throat, and is designed to 'lubricate and moisten the area of the throat behind the nose and mouth'.

It was found in the face. (Netherlands Cancer Institute)

Experts were understandably baffled at how the glands had managed to go unnoticed for so long, though Dr Wouter Vogel, radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, had an idea as to how they might have gone unnoticed.

He explained it takes 'very sensitive imaging' to spot the glands, and they're 'not very accessible'.

"People have three sets of large salivary glands, but not there," he said.

"As far as we knew, the only salivary or mucous glands in the nasopharynx are microscopically small, and up to 1,000 are evenly spread out throughout the mucosa. So, imagine our surprise when we found these."

Though the discovery wasn't intentional, scientists hope their findings will help cancer patients experience less complications after receiving radiotherapy, as they believe many complications surrounding the treatment are connected to the tubarial salivary glands.

It's no secret that humans have long been an intriguing topic of scientific study, but when it comes to what's inside our bodies, you'd probably have thought we'd got it covered by now.

There's 206 bones, a heart, a brain, blood, muscles - you get the picture. We've had years of dissecting bodies and studying what's inside to figure it all out.

So that makes it all the more surprising to learn that scientists discovered an entirely new organ just four years ago.

The discovery even came as a surprise to the scientists themselves, as they weren't looking for a new organ when it happened. As I mentioned, they probably thought we were all clued up in that area.

Instead, the team studying in the Netherlands were actually looking at prostate cancer when they came across the mysterious organ.

This might give you some clues about where it's located, and I can tell you right now, you're wrong.

The organ is actually located just beneath the face, meaning we've been staring at it the whole time.

So, how did the scientists stumble upon this organ?

Well, it all went down after the scientists at the Netherlands Cancer Institute conducted a series of CT and PET scans on patients who had been injected with radioactive glucose, which makes tumours glow on scans.

That glowing thing is the organ you never knew you had (YouTube/Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek)

When analyzing the scans, the team noticed two areas within the heads were lighting up.

The image indicated a set of salivary glands were tucked away in there, and upon further investigation, the scientists found that was exactly the case.

When they managed to track down the organ, the team gave it the catchy name of the 'tubarial salivary gland'.

The glands can be found behind the nose, in the nook where the nasal cavity meets the throat, and they're intended to 'lubricate and moisten the area of the throat behind the nose and mouth'.

The organ is located behind the nose and mouth (Getty Stock Image)

Dr Wouter Vogel, radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, explained that the reason the glands have gone unnoticed for so long is likely because it takes 'very sensitive imaging' to spot them.

On top of that, they're 'not very accessible'.

"People have three sets of large salivary glands, but not there," he said.

"As far as we knew, the only salivary or mucous glands in the nasopharynx are microscopically small, and up to 1,000 are evenly spread out throughout the mucosa. So, imagine our surprise when we found these."

The accidental discovery offered hope to scientists that it may help cancer patients experience less complications after receiving radiotherapy, as they believe many complications surrounding the treatment are connected to the tubarial salivary glands.

A woman living with schizophrenia has shared her experiences of the mental illness online.

It's estimated that just over one percent of the American population have schizophrenia - a mental disorder characterized by disruptions in thought processes, perceptions, emotional responsiveness, and social interactions.

Symptoms of the illness include hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorders, as well as reduced expression of emotions, reduced motivation to accomplish goals, difficulty in social relationships, motor impairment, and cognitive impairment, the National Institue of Mental Health explains.

What exactly causes someone to develop schizophrenia is still unknown, but scientists recently announced a potential huge breakthrough; a team of researchers in China believe they've worked out where the 'voices' people who suffer with schizophrenia come from.

After analyzing 40 people who live with the illness, it was concluded that the patients who hear voices didn't engage the 'corollary discharge' signal that fails to suppress self-generated sounds. This means those with the condition have a 'noisy' efference copy, as per EurekAlert, that 'makes the brain hear these sounds more intensely than it should'.

One person who knows this first-hand is Kendyl Culpepper, who openly documents her experiences with schizophrenia on TikTok.

A part of her illness, Kendyl will often hallucinate that her late father is still alive and that she still has interactions with him.

She takes medication to help with the symptoms, but on stressful days, Kendyl might still see her deceased dad, who passed in 2017.

Speaking about the mental toll it takes on her to keep having to relearn that her father's no longer here, Kendyl told BuzzFeed: "I was ready to absolutely just off myself because I couldn’t handle going through the grief over and over again of realizing that he was dead.

"It was almost like my brain couldn’t handle all of it so I tried to create this false sense of reality to give myself safety."

Kendyl Culpepper shares her life as a schizophrenic on TikTok. (@kendyl.culpepper/TikTok)

Kendyl believes she's been having hallucinations since the age of 10, but wasn't diagnosed with schizophrenia until her adult years.

With her previous suicidal feelings in mind, Kendyl wants others with schizophrenia to know that taking your own life isn't the only option.

She said: "It took me a long time to understand that I have schizophrenia for a purpose - so I can ensure nobody feels alone and like their only option is to kill themselves."