Jellyfish That Looks Like UFO Spotted By Underwater Rover

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. via GIPHY The researchers who filmed the bizarre creature said the jellyfish has two sets of tentacles, one set facing upward and the other downward. The reason for this is unknown. via GIPHY The sanctuary covers 13,581 square miles of nearshore coral reef and offshore open ocean across the Samoan archipelago in the South Pacific. The mission continues through April. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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