Am I reading that right? Wow.

Too popular I guess?

and the date/description, I'm assuming it was the same video. I'm sure the site in the OP is racking up hits - I've certainly contributed my share this morning...

to expose it's internal organs. Creepy.

...or maybe just taste it? lol

Probably a dumb question, but I wonder how this thing reproduces.

I was expecting more pictures of Anthony Weiner's junk.

EDIT: On second thought, that's not exactly rare footage, is it?

The hexagon pattern on its skin is very interesting. Could easily pass for alien life imo.

A type of jellyfish.

Beautiful clips like this should convince people to have open minds about what is possible in the world.

and:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2143400/Mysterious-ocean-blob-revealed-deepstaria-enigmatica-jellyfish.html

some say it is reticulum and some enigmatica, but they all seem to agree that it is deepstaria.

I saw the original video a while ago and went hunting for info. I know nothing about ocean creatures, but this sure is interesting.

If my ignorance is not misleading me, these things are sort of deepwater sloth jellyfishes. They hang out and occasionally net something that swims into the giant bag. And the organs seen near the end of the original video are its gonads?

Gonads:


I found the really interesting article that I had bookmarked when the vid first surfaced. It had the most info of any I could find at the time.

http://deepseanews.com/2012/05/solving-the-mystery-of-the-placental-jellyfish/

This was determined to be afterbirth or something.
I remember seeing this at least a year ago.

*edit*
Yup...clearly I did not read the comments before posting, lol.

I hate when that happens.

We often speak of pressure in terms of atmospheres. One atmosphere is equal to the weight of the earth's atmosphere at sea level, about 14.6 pounds per square inch. If you are at sea level, each square inch of your surface is subjected to a force of 14.6 pounds.

The pressure increases about one atmosphere for every 10 meters of water depth. At a depth of 5,000 meters the pressure will be approximately 500 atmospheres or 500 times greater than the pressure at sea level. That's a lot of pressure."

From NOAA, here.

I think that monitor was showing roughly 5044 meters.

Glad I was not the only one. Took a few seconds for my ipad to load the post so I too was looking at the gif. lol!

A situational selfie.