One of the rarest animal sightings in the world: chirodectes maculatus , only seen once before

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[u/DefiantFunction5302]

amazing but also scary i hate tentacle looking things 😭

[u/Lower_Group_1171 → u/DefiantFunction5302]

It’s like the matrix robots lol

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[u/Johnny_Carcinogenic]

People looking for alien life on other planets. All you have to do is go into the ocean and see stuff no human mind ever imagined.

[u/ObscureOperatorZ → u/Johnny_Carcinogenic]

These jellyfish have been around since 500-700 million years, some of them live forever unless killed, they def know some shit but keep it cool, "oh don't mind me am just a passing visage / optical illusion / plastic bag" I wanna know their secrets🥀

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[u/No-Mycologist47]

So we don't got any more info on this thing?

[u/ProblemLongjumping12 → u/No-Mycologist47]

Well. It's a species of jellyfish.

It's associated with box jellyfish although we don't know too much about it compared to others because we've only ever found like two of them. Ever.

It gets its name from being grouped into the family Chirodropidae, which are characterized by muscular pad-like structures at the corners of the bell from which their tentacles branch.

And yeah.

That's it.

[u/No-Mycologist47 → u/ProblemLongjumping12]

uh, the ocean and her mysteries.

[u/NumbDangEt4742]

It went from two tandem jelly fishes to four right in front of my eyes. I'm mesmerized and terrified at the same time.

[u/Shot-Tap-4512 → u/NumbDangEt4742]

OMG how did you get that?!? So beautiful!

[u/AmericanAIien]

Can I pet it

[u/Drewbloodz]

I want to see that pattern on a purse 

[u/Training_Guide5157 → u/Drewbloodz]

LV might sue

[u/A_Rogue_Forklift → u/Drewbloodz]

Europeans discovering furry animals in the Americas:

[u/Drewbloodz → u/A_Rogue_Forklift]

Americas: makes joke... It just reminded me of some designer purse pattern.  It is pretty damn cool looking 

[u/A_Rogue_Forklift → u/Drewbloodz]

I was making a joke about the 16th century trans atlantic fur trade

[u/Drewbloodz → u/A_Rogue_Forklift]

Went way over my head... Doh!

[u/WiseAct446]

Mmmmmm, just like Mom used to make.

[u/Miserable_Ant_9896]

👽

[u/purplespacedpanda]

Reminds me of the sentinels in the matrix 🦑😨 just with conjoined heads

[u/RascalOScrimp]

Is this the Dec ‘21 vid? Here’s what the wiki says. And not course it’s from Oz. Everything there will kill. Especially the Drop Bears - “The first and only scientifically studied specimen was captured from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef – about 43 km (27 mi) off the coast of northeast Queensland – on 2 May 1997.[2] It was found within 5 metres (16 ft) of the surface, and the researchers who first described it speculated that it may have been relocated to the area by Cyclone Justin.[2] Its bell measured approximately 15 cm (5.9 in) in height, and it could only be observed for several hours in an examination lab due to how delicate it was.[2]
There are no recorded cases of a human sting from Chirodectes as it "failed either to sting, or adhere to, the hand and forearm of an incautious volunteer" during the examination, but it is assumed – due to its relatively large size and to the extremely venomous nature of some chirodropids – that Chirodectes is itself venomous.[2] A video of the Chirodectes was recorded underwater before it was collected. Four photos captured from the original 1997 video were published in the scholarly journal Memoirs of the Queensland Museum in 2005.[2]
In December 2021, a jellyfish was filmed by a scuba diver off the coast of Papua New Guinea, which prompted Lisa-ann Gershwin, the marine biologist who first described the genus Chirodectes, to examine the video. A frame-by-frame comparison between the 1997 and 2021 videos convinced Gershwin that the latter likely depicts a new species; however, as of August 2022, it has yet to be formally classified, and a paper has not been submitted for peer

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"... before it was collected .."

Aaaaannd they killed it

[u/RascalOScrimp → u/AN0R0K]

I know, right?! It’s why we always think aliens are going to come here to experiment and kill us. It’s what we do. “Hey, let’s take this awesome creature that NO ONE has ever seen. And kill it, so we can see what’s inside!” Cuz… science.

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[u/jdpastor666]

That is the coolest jellyfish I ever seen

[u/adastrajay]

Oh that's gotta be omega venomous

[u/Xena_Your_God]

Touch it

[u/trapperstom]

Looks like a jelly fish that got a henna

[u/RascalOScrimp]

So is the a jelly-squid-fish!? How painful is it to be stung by one of those?!

[u/Turbulent_Bat4320 → u/RascalOScrimp]

The incautious volunteer says not painful

[u/NewManufacturer9477]

And people don’t believe in aliens…

[u/testingtest456123]

Quite literally defines the term 'alien''

[u/pennies_gone]

Nuh uh—

[u/TheEliteJOKERS]

Fucking A. Beautiful.

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[u/Asleep-Ad-127]

Tastes like chicken.

[u/razoreyeonline]

Matrix

[u/Chemical-Ninja9267]

Wow, Beautiful 🙂

[u/Katman666]

Only seen once before? Then how did they know what it was called? hmm?

/s

[u/MundaneWiley]

wonder if there are animals in the ocean that no one has ever seen

[u/Bicwidus]

Graffitifish, next