RT published this video item, entitled “‘Deep Sea Blob’ | First creature discovered by oceanic drone” – below is their description.
What lurks beneath? We’ll tell you: a blob. But not just any blob…
Researchers with the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have identified a new species of a gelatinous marine invertebrate known as a ctenophore – or a ‘deep sea blob’.
The discovery isn’t groundbreaking in itself – there are already 100 to 150 known species of ctenophores, aka comb jellies, sea gooseberries, sea walnuts, or Venus’s girdles (saucy) – but the way it was discovered is.
Duobrachium (that’s its name) was spotted in images beamed back by a deep sea drone off the coast of Puerto Rico in 2015 at a depth of 3,900m. It’s the first time a new marine species has been discovered this way.
And if you’re still not impressed, the blob measures less than a millimeter in length, which suggests the people at the NOAA have some seriously good TVs and a lot of time on their hands.
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