You’ll never know what you can find more than two miles deep into the ocean. This week, researchers from the NOAA found what they believe to be is a jellyfish from the genus Crossota.
According to Scientific American, NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer and Deep Discoverer “will be probing the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument over the next nine or so weeks, looking for new hydrothermal vents; mud volcanoes; deep-sea coral, sponges and fish; seamounts; subduction zones; and, of course, parts of the famous trench, the world’s deepest.”
"They also believe this animal is an ambush predator – note the posture it had assumed in the first half of the video: its bell motionless with its tentacles outstretched like the struts of a spider’s web, waiting for something to bumble into them. The red canals, they suggest, appear to connect the bright yellow objects, which may be gonads."
