At the end of April, a video, taken by an unknown YouTube user, appeared on the Internet, showing a strange deep-sea creature resembling a jellyfish with pronounced internal organs.
The record has gained more than two million views, but the debate about the origin of the video does not subside, according to Unknown who and when filmed an unusual underwater monster resembling a jellyfish with spines sticking out in different directions (possibly the internal organs of the animal). It is not even clear in what part of the World Ocean this record was made. Many foreign publications wrote about a giant deep-sea monster, YouTube users left more than 3,000 comments to the record, but it seems that no one managed to get close to solving the mystery.
Versions of what might have been captured on video vary widely. Some believe that this may be a sea creature previously unknown to science, others believe that this is the placenta of a whale, others write that the audience is deliberately misled by beautifully removing a giant plastic bag floating in the water. Someone jokes that an unknown hero of the most popular video hosting on the Web was lucky to capture Cthulhu himself - an ancient deity invented by the writer and mystic Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Realizing that there is no way to get to the bottom of the truth in this sea of opinions and reviews, the journalists of Nine News decided to seek comments from professional biologists. According to Dr. Daniel Butcher of the Australian Southern Cross University, the appendages of the creature are most likely its genitals. At the same time, the scientist added that he has no idea what kind of jellyfish the creature captured on the video may belong to.
“The only thing I can say is that it is an incredibly rare animal. His body shape is too unusual to make any more accurate predictions. That being said, I don't think it's a whale's placenta. She would not have lasted that long at serious depth. The placenta is a delicacy for fish, it would be eaten in minutes. However, as can be seen on the tape, no one encroaches on the 'placenta',”Butcher said.
Other marine biologists suggest that the author of the video was able to capture the rarest jellyfish species called Deepstaria enigmatica. It was first described in 1967. According to another version, it may be another jellyfish - Stygiomedusa gigantea, which has been seen only 114 times in the last 110 years. YouTube users still continue to share their opinions about what they saw.