A scientific team captured very rare scenes during a research trip in the depths of one of the strange creatures that was first spotted in 1899 and is classified among the rare creatures.
A submarine belonging to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has spotted a strange huge creature at a depth of 3,200 feet (975 meters).
Scientists photographed very rare scenes of the giant ghost jellyfish (Stygiomedusa gigantea), one of the rarest creatures that scientists have seen since its discovery in 1899.
According to a statement by the Marine Biological Research Institute (MBARI), these scenes are one of only nine times that center scientists have discovered this “elusive” creature among the thousands of expeditions into the depths of the ocean carried out by the Institute.
The institute pointed out that this “giant phantom jelly” was first discovered in 1899, and since then, scientists have only encountered this creature about 100 times.
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According to the article published in the scientific journal “livescience”, the “giant ghost”, which is among the largest jellyfish on the planet, was detected in the deepest parts of all the world’s oceans except for the arctic.
This ghostly giant is a rare sight. But recently, we spotted this giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea) with the ROV Doc Ricketts 990 meters deep in Monterey Bay.
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And the research institute confirms that watching the creature is still one of the rarest events on our planet, as it usually lives “very far from the places where humans reached or submarines that descend to great depths.”
Commenting on these rare sightings, the research institute said in a statement that the deep-sea sunrise-like creature with a head like a bell, is more than 3.3 feet (1 meter) wide, and its ribbon-like mouth arms can grow to more than 33 feet (10 meters) ).
Little is known about ghost jellyfish, but scientists believe they use their mouthparts, which flow like loose scarves and float behind them, to trap prey and insert it into their mouth.