Underwater drilling camera catches giant, mysterious sea creature
Did Capt. Nemo ever see anything like this when he was “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?
A mysterious creature was caught by underwater cameras recently during deep-sea drilling near the United Kingdom.
The camera catches the giant blob – which looks brown in color and appears to have scales — floating around, with organs and appendages sticking out, something rarely ever seen before.
So should we be afraid of this new sea creature and will it take over the world?
Steven Haddock, a scientist for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., says that the mysterious creature is a Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish, much to the chagrin of some Reddit users who thought it was a whale placenta.
“This bag-like jelly is not that rare, but is large, so rarely seen intact,” Haddock said on his “JellyWatch” Facebook page. “In the video, the swirling from the sub makes the medusa appear to undulate and it even turns inside-out.”
This type of jellyfish is usually found in the south Atlantic Ocean, some 5,000 feet below. According to the Marine Species Identification Portal, the jellyfish has “oral arms terminating in curious hook-shaped organ[s]
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It appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928.
The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults.
This is scarier. And truer.
"Steven Haddock, a scientist for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., says that the mysterious creature is a Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish, much to the chagrin of some Reddit users who thought it was a whale placenta."
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
From pirates of the caribbean movie, lol!!!!!
But still very interesting, the ocean is so unexplored, almost to a point of patheticness.
I was leaning toward the Whale placenta or some such item. Pretty cool though. They say the Deep is the next fronteir to explore. Now let's get the Joke out of the way, shall we?
...That's what you get when you throw plastic bags in the Ocean. Gotta watch those Horny Jellyfish. \m/
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