Researchers from the Australian Serpent project filmed an absolutely fantastic creature that looks like a tangled ball of noodles off the coast of Angola (South Africa).
The creature lived at a depth of 1325 meters.
First, the camera filmed something whitish and elongated in the water. "Alien?" - the camera operator joked, and then brought the camera closer to the object.
In the light of the deep-sea camera, the object with many dangling threads looked even more like tangled Chinese noodles. At the bottom, these threads were thin and long. while the top of the object is short and thick. And they all moved by themselves.
This video (see below) hit the Internet back in 2015, but only recently did it appear on Reddit, and then in the media. On the net, the creature was jokingly called "the real Macaroni monster."
The authors of the video did not know what kind of creature it was, but then one of them made the assumption that it might be one of the types of Siphonophores. These are sea creatures that resemble jellyfish, but live in colonies.
Thus, the creature in the video is not a single organism, but a large colony of many separate creatures.
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The most famous siphonophore is the Portuguese boat (physalia) and is famous primarily for the fact that its long "tentacles" are dangerous to humans and cause painful burns.
Whether the noodle-like creature captured by Project Serpent is also poisonous or not remains unknown. However, it lives at great depths and thus is not dangerous to people, unlike the same physalia that lives close to the surface.