Et si Abyss (Film 1989) était un peu vrais - This Deep Sea Jellyfish Looks Like It Came From Outer Space

Va savoir, mon côté "mimicracra", cette méduse m'a hypnotisé...

Plus de photos/infos sur l'expédition sous marine: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1605/welcome.html "2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas"
On y trouve aussi, dans ces grands fonds malheureusement des déchets qui-n'ont-rien-à-faire-là *sniff*

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This Deep Sea Jellyfish Looks Like It Came From Outer Space

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25 avr. 2016

This stunningly beautiful jellyfish was seen during Dive 4 of the 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition on April 24, 2016, while exploring the informally named "Enigma Seamount" at a depth of ~3,700 meters.

Scientists identified this hydromedusa as belonging to the genus Crossota. Note the two sets of tentacles — short and long. At the beginning of the video, you'll see that the long tentacles are even and extended outward and the bell is motionless. This suggests an ambush predation mode. Within the bell, the radial canals in red are connecting points for what looks like the gonads in bright yellow.

Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.

Learn more about the expedition here: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos...

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