Just in case you didn’t think the ocean wasn’t alien enough, researchers off Western Australia have filmed an otherworldly underwater creature comprised of millions of interconnected “clones.” ...

WITH CHIEF ANIMAL STORIE CORRESPONDENT POPPI GREEN.... WHO'S BEEN SPENDING SOME OF THIS SHELTER IN PLACE TIME TO STUDY UP ON MARINE BIOLOGY, AND WAS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE DISCOVERY OF A ...

FOOTAGE of a long luminescent string-like object floating in the ocean has left people feeling like they’ve just seen a deep-sea alien. What we’re actually looking at is in fact a giant siphonophore, ...

Today we return to a treasured Weird Wednesdays tradition: learning about horrifying creatures from the bottom of the sea that will most likely give you nightmares for the rest of your life. This week ...

“Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition,” wrote the official Twitter account for the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SCI). “It seems likely that this ...

During a recent dive in the Gulf of Mexico, Nautilus Live expedition crew spotted something unusual. A closer look revealed that they had stumbled upon a giant siphonophore. A siphonophore is a colony ...

More than 2,000 feet beneath the ocean surface, an otherworldly, 50-foot-wide marine organism floats… and feeds. The Schmidt Ocean Institute recently shared a video on Twitter of this impressive ...

Things here on terra firma may be a bit absurd right now—thanks to an ever-lengthening list of unbelievable current events—but it seems that everything going on in the deep sea is the same as it ever ...

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have discovered an unusual organism in the eastern Indian Ocean, off the remote western coast of Australian. The researchers took video of the Apolemia – a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Name: Siphonophores (Siphonophora) Where they live: All oceans What they eat: Small crustaceans, ...

THOUGHT TO BE more than 120 metres long, this giant siphonophore – a type of marine organism related to jellyfish and corals – was spotted off the coast of Western Australia a couple of weeks ago by a ...