Most deep-sea creatures look like something from the ... coloring works similarly to distract predators. The post This Rare Jellyfish Lives 13,000 Feet Below the Ocean’s Surface — and it ...

The deep sea remains one of the most mysterious and least explored places on Earth. Home to countless unknown species and ...

(Read about a rare deep-sea jellyfish that resembles a plastic bag.) The jellyfish (photographed during the submersible dive) uses its long arms to catch prey, such as plankton. Photograph by ...

Jacob Harrell teamed up with OceanX to film the event in the Indian Ocean after being inspired by a Disney+ show ...

Still, it’s good to see researchers discovering the dangers deep sea mining could pose to these jellyfish. Hopefully, companies keep that in mind as they scour the bottom of our oceans for rare ...

A rare and elusive deep sea creature was captured on camera by a high-tech remote submersible in Monterey, CA. The massive, 33-foot “phantom jellyfish” — a darkly colored being with ribbon-l ...

The "pagesi" suffix was given in honor of the late Dr. Francesc Pagès, a jellyfish taxonomist. "The species is very different from all the deep-sea medusae ... because of how rare it is ...

But, these rare creatures are hard to catch in traditional trawl nets. That makes them difficult to study. Deep-sea jellyfish tend to turn to gelatinous goo when captured in nets. Because of that ...

Dhugal John Lindsay/Jamstec The researchers hope that further expeditions to the deep-sea volcano will yield more sightings of the rare jellyfish. "We will be undertaking more surveys inside ...

MBARI added that the sightings of the predator are still extremely rare as they usually ... it was once assumed that jellyfish were largely unimportant in deep-sea ecology. A 2017 study by MBARI ...