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Tuesday, 9th November, 2021
Some sea friends! Pippies on some cuttlefish and the most intact washed up blue bottles! Did you know blue bottles aren't reeeaaally jellyfish, but are siphonophores made up of multiple organisms? Pretty cool huh?
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A 150-foot string-like deep-sea predator
Scientists exploring the deep sea off Australia’s coast have discovered what may be the longest animal ever seen - a siphonophore measuring an estimated 150 feet (46 metres). Siphonophores are deep-sea predators made up of many small clones that act together as one and spread out like a single long string in the water.
Like jellyfish, they feed by dangling stinging tentacles in the water. Small fish unlucky enough to swim into this curtain of tentacles are paralysed and reeled up to the body of the colony.
The new siphonophore was about twice as long as many blue whales, and three times as long as a humpback whale, which usually grow to around 50ft long.
Video: Schmidt Ocean Institute
