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I, for one, welcome our Stygiomedusa overlords - pRICE cUBE - 02-21-2023
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stygiomedusa
https://petapixel.com/2023/02/21/extraordinarily-rare-giant-phantom-jellyfish-caught-on-camera/
An extraordinarily rare giant phantom jellyfish, which can stretch a huge 30 feet in length, has been caught on camera.
The photographs of the mysterious deep-sea creature were captured on a submersible dive hundreds of feet underwater off the coast of Antarctica’s Rongé Island.
There have been fewer than 126 sightings of the giant phantom jellyfish, or Stygiomedusa gigantea, since the species was first described in 1910. This is just the second time in as many years that the phantom jellyfish has been caught on camera. In 2021, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institude (MBARI) also shot footage of an example of the giant creature, which it says it only had captured footage of nine times over thousands of dives.
Re: I for one welcome our Stygiomedusa overlords - Fritz - 02-21-2023
bet the chicks dig him
Re: I, for one, welcome our Stygiomedusa overlords - DP - 02-22-2023
Cool! We know less of our oceans than we do of the Moon...
Re: I, for one, welcome our Stygiomedusa overlords - mikebw - 02-22-2023
DP wrote:
Cool! We know less of our oceans than we do of the Moon...
To be fair, if there were more of these giant lasagne fish on the Moon they would be a lot easier to see!