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Mysterious Sea Blob: Fishing Net, Whale Part, Jellyfish or?

Video captured by a deep-sea underwater camera shows blob moving like a living creature

May 9, 2012

It’s no secret humans have yet to discover the majority of creatures lurking in the deepest depths of the ocean. But any time we are offered a glimpse of what’s swimming far deeper than any fishing lure or squid jig can reach, my eyes widen in awe.

This morning, UK’s Daily Mail reported a quick analysis of the YouTube video below that surfaced last week — an unidentifiable sea creature as it was recorded at 5,056 feet by an Oceaneering deep-sea remote-controlled underwater camera.

Sure, as the Daily Mail breaks down, it could be free-floating debris or a whale placenta/amniotic sack, propelled by deep currents. But what are those glowing, alien-like organs that appear in the upper-right corner of the video at around 1:41? They seem to practically bloom out of the creature at 4:00.

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Is it looking at us? Waving goodbye at 4:28? I think the view at 5:10 is where folks are guessing it might be a fishing net. But I disagree, leaning more toward the new-species-of-jellyfish theory.

I can’t wait to see what scientists say as this video makes its way around the world.

**UPDATE 5/10/12 1:25pm: **And we have an answer! According to an article posted by The Telegraph:

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Experts have however confirmed that it is in fact a Deepstaria enigmatica, a jellyfish from the Ulmaridae family first discovered in 1967 by F.S. Russel. The invertebrae is usually found in the South Atlantic ocean.

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