Video: Jellyfish Looking Like Alien Spaceship Found In Marianas Trench

By R. Siva Kumar - 03 May '16 09:53AM

Alien life may not have been discovered as yet. Still, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) 10-week journey into the depths of the Mariana Trench shows that some of the earth's life forms are as strange as potential alien life. Recently, the administration found a unique deep-water jellyfish two miles below the ocean with thin, spindly limbs and an eccentric colored body.

With a "Deep Discoverer" remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV), some footage of the creature was captured, which showed it to be a hydromedusa or a small kind of jellyfish that falls into the Crossota genus.

It has very thin, outstretched tentacles that can catch and subdue other fish that swim nearby.

It's long and short tentacles stretch out from its gelatinous bell. If the bell does not move, scientists believe that the creature is in "ambush mode".

The yellow globules observed in the video are probably gonads, while the red filaments link them to their body.

"Its morphology is quite different from other seamounts in the region, which generally have a flat top with steep, smooth sides radiating out into narrow ridges," they said. "By contrast, this one is more circular in form and the sides are much less smooth."

The team got glimpses of other strange creatures, including "stalked crinoids and primnoid corals, swimming polychaete worms, a cusk eel, Caulophacus sponges, cladhorizid sponges, a Munidopsis squat lobster, a beautiful hydrozoan jellyfish and at least two Nematocarcinus shrimp."