All articles tagged with #deep sea creature
A rare encounter with a giant oarfish near Taiwan's coast has fascinated the public and scientists, providing valuable insights into deep-sea life and challenging old folklore linking such sightings to earthquakes. The creature's appearance highlights its deep-sea adaptations and the importance of observational data in understanding these elusive animals.
The article describes the fascinating and mysterious barreleye fish, a deep-sea creature with a transparent head and upward-facing tubular eyes that can rotate forward, allowing it to see in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. Its unique adaptations for survival in the midnight zone have intrigued scientists, especially after a 2009 expedition captured live footage, revealing new insights into its anatomy and behavior. The fish's features may inspire technological innovations, and it remains a symbol of the vast, largely unexplored ocean depths.
The headless chicken monster, scientifically known as Enypniastes eximia, is a deep-sea cucumber that lives below 1,600 feet, feeding on marine snow and using tube feet to scoop sediment. It can swim and avoid predators by swimming upright, sometimes defecating to lighten itself for better buoyancy. Its fragile nature makes it difficult for scientists to study, but it offers fascinating insights into deep-sea life.
A team of scientists captured rare footage of a "rarely seen" whip-lash squid, Mastigopsis hjorti, with long, sticky tentacles drifting more than 3,600 feet underwater in the Pacific Ocean. The Schmidt Ocean Institute is currently exploring underwater mountains in the southeast Pacific Ocean, using various equipment to study the underwater summits. The squid was observed excreting a cloud of greenish-yellow ink and creating abstract shapes to confuse predators. This discovery adds to recent sightings of other rare deep-sea creatures in different parts of the world.
A video clip of a deep-sea creature that has been described as an "alien-looking creature" or "unidentified transforming deep sea creature" is actually a bloody-belly comb jelly, or Lampocteis cruentiventer, a species that is often photographed during deep-ocean ROV missions. The species is found throughout the Pacific Ocean basin and has been seen in the Atlantic Ocean basin as well. The reddish tint of the translucent comb jelly's body is believed to hide the contents of its stomach from predators, and in the deep sea, the jelly appears black, rendering it virtually invisible given the darkness of its surroundings.