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Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition. It seems likely that this specimen is the largest ever recorded, and in strange UFO-like feeding posture. Thanks @Caseywdunn for info @wamuseum @GeoscienceAus @CurtinUni @Scripps_Oceanpic.twitter.com/QirkIWDu6S
For more about these amazing creatures and their bewildering formations ("The whole thing looks like one animal, but it’s many thousands of individuals which form an entity on a higher level”) check out one of our previous @instagram posts: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9CXpzmBp-6/
That is incredible. Amazing find.
This is amazing! Did the crew manage to get lasers on it for a guess at its approximate size?
The #ROV pilot used #SuBastian and its lasers to estimate the size: this siphonophore’s outer ring measured in at 15m (49ft) diameter, so just that ring *alone* seems to be approximately 47m (154ft)!
How big do you estimate it is?
The #ROV pilot used #SuBastian and its lasers to estimate the size: this siphonophore’s outer ring measured in at 15m (49ft) diameter, so just that ring *alone* seems to be approximately 47m (154ft)!
Deep ocean creatures always amaze me…
Wooooow
BIG BOYE
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