This was the first-ever footage of the Giant Phantom 🪼 🪼 The Stygiomedusa gigantea is one of the ocean's rarest and most mysterious jellyfish. It's only been seen around 100 times since 1899, and footage of it is even rarer. This eerie giant was captured by MBARI's deep-sea ROV over 1,000 meters below the surface-and it looks unreal. With its ghostly bell and flowing, curtain-like arms that stretch up to 10 meters, it drifts through the darkness like something out of another world. Though this

Taking the blues out of your Wednesday with this phenomenal jelly. ⁠ ⁠ Stygiomedusa gigantea is one of the largest invertebrate predators known in the ocean, yet researchers know little about its ecology and behavior. Stygiomedusa lacks tentacles but has four extraordinarily large oral arms that are presumably used to envelope prey. The swimming bell of this spectacular medusa can reach over one meter across with arms over ten meters long.⁠ ⁠ A symbiotic relationship between Stygiomedusa and the

Scientists spotted a rare phantom jellyfish (Stygiomedusa gigantea) during an expedition in deep-sea ecosystems off the coast of Argentina, the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Feb. 2. | NTD Life