Sea Creature Mystery Video: Do You Have Any Idea What This Is?
Posted by Justin on May 11th, 2012
A sentient bed sheet.
That’s pretty much the only descriptor that comes to mind when looking at this video. In reality, this blob caught on a deep sea drilling camera off the coast of the UK is a massive jellyfish.
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.”
It’s kind of hypnotic. Just makes you want to submit to our jellyfish overlords and walk into the ocean to bask in their omnipotent glory.
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May 11th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
It’s a whale placenta
May 11th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Harry Potter dropped his invisibility cloak in the ocean?
May 11th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
It’s jellyfish placenta.
May 13th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
I’m not sure what it is, but I’m pretty sure it killed Lieutenant Yar.
May 17th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
I was wrong — it’s Reddit placenta.