“Cosmic” Jellyfish
Is it a UFO or a Jellyfish?
Scientists Discover Unique Sea Creature
Seamount” at a depth of ~3,700 meters.
Scientists identified this hydromedusa as
belonging to the genus Crossota. Note the two sets of tentacles — short
and long. At the beginning of the video, you’ll see that the long
tentacles are even and extended outward and the bell is motionless. This
suggests an ambush predation mode. Within the bell, the radial canals
in red are connecting points for what looks like the gonads in bright
yellow.
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.
It’s a UFO ― an underwater fishy object.
A
jellyfish that looks amazingly like a flying saucer was recently filmed
by a team of marine biologists from the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
This “UFO” isn’t really unidentified.
Its scientific name is rhopalonematid trachymedusa, a type of deep-sea
jellyfish. It was filmed last week by scientists aboard the Okeanos Explorer, a NOAA ocean research ship now exploring the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.
Watching the jellyfish move around the deep ocean can be a hypnotic experience.
It's one of the most hostile places on Earth and extends seven miles
(11km) below the waves at its deepest point, but the Mariana Trench is
full of secrets. A deepwater exploration mission of the area has spotted
beautiful, unknown jellyfish with two types of tentacles as well as a
number of other bizarre animals just one week into the study. The
orb-like jellyfish was spotted on a dive at a location named Engima
Seamount at a depth of 12,139ft (3,700 metres). While experts were able
to identify it as belonging to the genus Crossota, they are unable to
assign a precise name to the pretty hydromedusa.
They filmed the jellyfish 'floating' through the depths with its long tentacles extended outwards and its bell motionless, suggesting 'an ambush predation mode'. It is thought the red colour in the bell is the creature's radial canals, while the bright yellow may be its gonads. The researchers believe this animal is an ambush predator which waits motionless for something to bumble into its tentacles. The jellyfish was filmed by experts aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) ship, Okeanos Explorer on April 24 using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer. Scientists nicknamed it 'Microsoft Paint', which looks like a resemblance to a jellyfish drawn in that program design.
They are in the process of collecting information about the poorly known deepwater areas in and around the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (MTMNM) which protects approximately 95,216 square miles of submerged lands and waters.
It is close to the famous Mariana Trench, which measures 1,580 miles (2,550 km) long, with an average width of just 43 miles (69 km). The distance between the surface of the ocean and the trench's deepest point, the Challenger Deep is nearly seven miles (11 km). In the coming months, the researchers will explore deep habitats, new hydrothermal vent sites, mud volcanoes, deep-sea coral and sponge communities, and seamounts, as well as subduction zone and trench areas. It's hoped the information they collect until July will help improve our understanding of of the deep-ocean habitats of the Mariana archipelago.
Video snippets and snapshots - Credits: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas
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They filmed the jellyfish 'floating' through the depths with its long tentacles extended outwards and its bell motionless, suggesting 'an ambush predation mode'. It is thought the red colour in the bell is the creature's radial canals, while the bright yellow may be its gonads. The researchers believe this animal is an ambush predator which waits motionless for something to bumble into its tentacles. The jellyfish was filmed by experts aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) ship, Okeanos Explorer on April 24 using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer. Scientists nicknamed it 'Microsoft Paint', which looks like a resemblance to a jellyfish drawn in that program design.
They are in the process of collecting information about the poorly known deepwater areas in and around the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (MTMNM) which protects approximately 95,216 square miles of submerged lands and waters.
It is close to the famous Mariana Trench, which measures 1,580 miles (2,550 km) long, with an average width of just 43 miles (69 km). The distance between the surface of the ocean and the trench's deepest point, the Challenger Deep is nearly seven miles (11 km). In the coming months, the researchers will explore deep habitats, new hydrothermal vent sites, mud volcanoes, deep-sea coral and sponge communities, and seamounts, as well as subduction zone and trench areas. It's hoped the information they collect until July will help improve our understanding of of the deep-ocean habitats of the Mariana archipelago.
Video snippets and snapshots - Credits: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas
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- Expedition website: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos...
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/oceanexp...
- Live feed till July 10, 2016 : http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos...
- Okeanos Explorer - Camera 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aXR-...
- Okeanos Explorer - Camera 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWzZ...
- Okeanos Explorer - Camera 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vNA...
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