Scientists have discovered a rare deep-sea predator beneath the ice of Antarctica. Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant ...

Scientists have discovered a rare deep-sea predator beneath the ice of Antarctica. Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured footage of a giant phantom jelly with ribbon-like arms over 30 feet ...

Researchers witness gigantic iceberg A-84 breaking away from George VI, revealing an unknown ecosystem and giant phantom ...

The colossal phantom jelly, or Stygiomedusa gigantea, was seen for the first time in 1899. When scientists collected a ...

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 ...

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 ...