The woolly siphonophore thrives in the deep sea by stretching out to catch a meal

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2023
  • The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts growing together in a chain. The woolly siphonophore (Apolemia lanosa) is a shaggy species we often encounter in Monterey Bay. We know they can reach at least five meters (16 feet) in length, but other siphonophores can be as long as a blue whale!
    We often encounter the woolly siphonophore in a spiral coil dangling a curtain of tentacles. Specialized stinging cells stun any unfortunate animal that blunders into those sprawling tentacles. The woolly siphonophore is one of two new Apolemia species we discovered in Monterey Bay. Our team has worked with collaborators around the world to describe 11 previously unknown siphonophore species off the California coast.
    Understanding and documenting deep-sea biodiversity is increasingly critical. Fishing pressure, pollution, and climate change all threaten the deep ocean. We urgently need to establish a baseline of what lives in the deep sea to monitor ongoing human impacts on this environment.
    Learn more about this and other fascinating animals of the deep: mbari.co/WoollySiphonophore
    Script writer: Kristine Walz
    Science advisor: Steve Haddock
    Editor: Ted Blanco
    Narrator: Madeline Go
    Motion Graphics: Madeline Go
    Production team: Heidi Cullen, Madeline Go, Larissa Lemon, Raúl Nava, Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun, Kristine Walz
    Music: 'Beautiful Spa Music' by Gusto from Storyblocks.com
    References:
    Choy, C.A., S.H.D. Haddock, and B.H. Robison (2017). Deep pelagic food web structure as revealed by in situ feeding observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284: 20172116. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2116
    Damian-Serrano, A., S.H.D. Haddock, and C.W. Dunn (2021). The evolution of siphonophore tentilla for specialized prey capture in the open ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(8): e2005063118. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005063118
    Damian-Serrano, A., E.D. Hetherington, C.A. Choy, S.H.D. Haddock, A. Lapides, and C.W. Dunn (2022). Characterizing the secret diets of siphonophores (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using DNA metabarcoding. PLoS ONE, 17(5): e0267761. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267761
    Gasca, R. and S.H.D. Haddock (2016). The rare deep-living hyperiid amphipod Megalanceoloides remipes (Barnard, 1932): complementary description and symbiosis. Zootaxa, 4178 (1): 138-144. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.7
    Gasca, R., R. Hoover, and S.H.D. Haddock (2015). New symbiotic associations of hyperiid amphipods (Peracarida) with gelatinous zooplankton in deep waters off California. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 95(3): 503-511. doi.org/10.1017/S0025315414001416
    ​​Haddock, S.H.D. and J.F. Case (1999). Bioluminescence spectra of shallow and deep-sea gelatinous zooplankton: Ctenophores, medusae and siphonophores. Marine Biology, 133: 571-582. doi.org/10.1007/s002270050497
    Hetherington, E.D., A. Damian-Serrano, S.H.D. Haddock, C.W. Dunn, and C.A. Choy (2022). Integrating siphonophores into marine food-web ecology. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 7: 81-95. doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10235
    Siebert, S., P.R. Pugh, S.H.D. Haddock, and C.W. Dunn (2013). Re-evaluation of characters in Apolemiidae (Siphonophora), with description of two new species from Monterey Bay, California. Zootaxa, 3702 (3): 201-232. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.1
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  • @jdanielortega
    @jdanielortega 8 месяцев назад +216

    I still can't fathom that this creature exists, is alive, and I share a planet with it.

    • @nevereverforever0010-uf9su
      @nevereverforever0010-uf9su 7 месяцев назад +2

      bahahhahahhhahahhahahhaa HUMBLIN eh ahah

    • @kij7412
      @kij7412 3 месяца назад +4

      Thats how far away from nature humanity got...

    • @carlmorton9160
      @carlmorton9160 3 месяца назад +2

      @@kij7412 Before we could even see most of it

    • @ITALIERMAN
      @ITALIERMAN 3 месяца назад +1

      It’s not a colonial organism or a singular organism it’s both

    • @arlenehotep381
      @arlenehotep381 2 месяца назад +3

      This looks like something from my sci-fi movies. Awesome. Kudos to the scientist this should be broadcasted on regular tv.

  • @chase_modugno
    @chase_modugno 2 месяца назад +48

    Funny how we're all interested in finding aliens in space when we haven't even found all the creatures in the sea yet

    • @GodsDiamond7
      @GodsDiamond7 2 месяца назад +3

      Absolutely.

    • @JerusalemCome
      @JerusalemCome Месяц назад

      Space is a distrcation. there will be no leaving the earth, because of the firmament. whats behind the Firmament is another dimension, which the human mind can not process.

    • @thequietkid5212
      @thequietkid5212 Месяц назад +1

      I mean true. But people love to meet another intelligent life.

  • @arliafrink3043
    @arliafrink3043 8 месяцев назад +63

    Huge high five to the ROV operators that captured this footage! Never thought I'd see that close to something so delicate! Absolutely amazing!🤯🤯

  • @nooneofnote8453
    @nooneofnote8453 8 месяцев назад +25

    Me and a few thousand of my buddies just hanging out and becoming Long to eat whatever comes our way

  • @ella.r
    @ella.r 8 месяцев назад +48

    It’s my DREAM to research siphonophores as a career. This is amazing.

    • @chelseafisher6881
      @chelseafisher6881 2 месяца назад +2

      Cool, I love that you’re so interested in something that not on my radar! I really hope you live your dream!

  • @bhasty1
    @bhasty1 8 месяцев назад +58

    These videos never cease to amaze me.

  • @boundsgreenboy8354
    @boundsgreenboy8354 8 месяцев назад +29

    Just love the beautiful intricacies and make up of these fascinating creatures. God bless you all at MBARI and beyond. 👌

  • @ZadakLeader
    @ZadakLeader 8 месяцев назад +15

    Yet again, oceans more interesting than space

  • @arlenehotep381
    @arlenehotep381 2 месяца назад +3

    Awesome. Kudos to the scientist. This should be broadcast on regular tv. Lets preserve the Earth.

  • @andrewkelley9405
    @andrewkelley9405 8 месяцев назад +15

    sea floofs.

  • @callunas
    @callunas 8 месяцев назад +7

    I'm irrationally terrified of siphonophores... they're just so *stringy*

    • @geocelta1961
      @geocelta1961 2 месяца назад +2

      It isn't irrational to me..they sting anything to death that touches them then slowly dissolve and eat them. If they were harmless, sure, they'd be pretty cool, but they most certainly are not lol

  • @sugreev2001
    @sugreev2001 3 месяца назад +4

    Can you please tell me the name of the music/song used in the background? Love your channel. Long time subscriber.

  • @master_shorts6188
    @master_shorts6188 8 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for this channel ❤❤❤

  • @tichu7
    @tichu7 8 месяцев назад +11

    With only a way to propel themselves forwards, and only at the front end, I'm surprised not more of these are tied up in knots.

  • @jlioncrew1334
    @jlioncrew1334 Месяц назад +2

    The Woolly Siphonophore is my favourite Jellyfish

  • @rhondahuggins9542
    @rhondahuggins9542 8 месяцев назад +3

    Oh come on...yall know that a fat scrap of yarn can't just become self-aware😉❤ These magnificent creatures put our social cooperation to shame! Thanks, MBARI💙

  • @thechosenone5644
    @thechosenone5644 7 месяцев назад +5

    new siphonophore just dropped let’s goooooooo

  • @thebraveomar7780
    @thebraveomar7780 2 месяца назад +1

    I m so proud to watch this channel 🎇✨✨

  • @kahanuermeyas-tulu4056
    @kahanuermeyas-tulu4056 7 месяцев назад

    Never heard of this beautiful species. Thanks for introducing it to me MBARI.

  • @merlim5494
    @merlim5494 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing

  • @TrevorLaVigne
    @TrevorLaVigne 8 месяцев назад +5

    2:16 is crazy. Never heard someone describe cannibalism in such a happy tone

    • @timohara7717
      @timohara7717 6 месяцев назад +1

      I mena they don't really care when it happens

  • @PnayNuub
    @PnayNuub 2 месяца назад

    What a soothing voice😊

  • @pocketsnacks
    @pocketsnacks 3 месяца назад

    This is amazing!

  • @constantinpaduraru6875
    @constantinpaduraru6875 8 месяцев назад +2

    Faceti o treaba excelenta❤

  • @gibbons9599
    @gibbons9599 Месяц назад

    Friends doing their best

  • @m3l_o
    @m3l_o 8 месяцев назад +2

    they do look like a sponge actually, but uet i love deep sea animals so much.

  • @LimousGuyMemory
    @LimousGuyMemory 8 месяцев назад +2

    Cool animals

  • @TechGamesAU
    @TechGamesAU 8 месяцев назад

    Isn't 1,000m depth where the bathypelagic zone begins? Why do you call it the midnight zone?

  • @creamycold1681
    @creamycold1681 6 месяцев назад

    That thing was created amazingly

  • @user-su3tj1uk2k
    @user-su3tj1uk2k 6 месяцев назад +1

    I loved the game *flOw* because it was like getting to pretend to be a siphonophore

  • @xtieburn
    @xtieburn 8 месяцев назад +1

    How does it avoid eating itself?

  • @AreHan1991
    @AreHan1991 2 месяца назад

    Trippy!

  • @SalamaSond
    @SalamaSond 8 месяцев назад +6

    Do they recombine after they are severed? How do they reproduce? Do they simply replace parts until the organism is composed of entirely different parts, like a "Ship of Theseus"?

    • @MBARIvideo
      @MBARIvideo  8 месяцев назад +15

      After they break apart, only the "head"-the swimming end-can replicate. The "tail" would begin to sink and, most likely become food for another deep-sea animal!

    • @GRIMOASIS
      @GRIMOASIS 3 месяца назад

      @@MBARIvideohow do they reproduce?

    • @bezoticallyyours83
      @bezoticallyyours83 2 месяца назад

      ​@@MBARIvideothat's very interesting

  • @coastaltechnologies2329
    @coastaltechnologies2329 7 месяцев назад

    can you please release more longform footage? all these videos are 3 minutes

  • @MCNarret
    @MCNarret 7 дней назад

    People not understanding there are oceans in space, we're in space.

  • @Tennisball999
    @Tennisball999 Месяц назад

    “The source of all living matter”

  • @bezoticallyyours83
    @bezoticallyyours83 2 месяца назад

    Wow

  • @ellenlandowski1659
    @ellenlandowski1659 2 месяца назад

    How do such delicatecanimals live at such intense water pressures.

  • @marcsaturnino1041
    @marcsaturnino1041 2 месяца назад

    The more we learn about oceans the more alien life other words seems completely possible.

  • @user-uu5ui9kk4s
    @user-uu5ui9kk4s Месяц назад

    It does

  • @ThevinKothalawala-wo3pd
    @ThevinKothalawala-wo3pd 7 месяцев назад

    Great they have fur now

  • @jordache409
    @jordache409 3 месяца назад

    its like a disembodied G.I. system turned inside out.

  • @familysystem
    @familysystem 2 месяца назад

    I LOVE THIS FUCKING THANG!

  • @Apolemia
    @Apolemia 6 месяцев назад

    SIPHONOPHORE LETS GOOO

  • @warcatbattalion
    @warcatbattalion 25 дней назад

    Another Crab's Treasure

  • @wildfornature670
    @wildfornature670 2 месяца назад

    What's that glowing creature that passed by in front of the camera at 2:08?

  • @jipes
    @jipes 8 месяцев назад

    FAscinating

  • @bmolitor615
    @bmolitor615 7 месяцев назад

    I said to myself DONT CLICK DONT CLIK OMG LOOOK AT THAT THING SO CREEEEPY, and I clicked and it was beautiful

  • @blubastud
    @blubastud 3 месяца назад

    2:08 nobody going to say anything about the ufo floating across the screen here?

  • @Aninat0R
    @Aninat0R 4 месяца назад +1

    This makes me uncomfortable

  • @loralii
    @loralii 7 месяцев назад

    😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @cherokeeschill
    @cherokeeschill 6 месяцев назад

    Siphonophore. It's a siphonophore.

  • @AndrewK209
    @AndrewK209 5 месяцев назад +1

    Fishes

  • @Abdullah12689
    @Abdullah12689 8 месяцев назад

    سبحان الله

  • @user-jj3ee5fn4d
    @user-jj3ee5fn4d 2 месяца назад

    Not creature,IT is society?

  • @skullyinc.
    @skullyinc. 18 дней назад

    Now someone draw it as a Hot anime woman

  • @Lyons_T-BAG
    @Lyons_T-BAG 3 месяца назад

    I can't imagine how beautiful this would taste. 😍

  • @pharossymphony
    @pharossymphony 8 месяцев назад +3

    did you say 'fishes' ?

    • @MBARIvideo
      @MBARIvideo  8 месяцев назад +10

      In biology, there are two different ways to pluralize fish. We use the plural fish to refer to a group of fish of the same species. However, when referring to multiple species of fish, we use fishes. The same is true for squid and squids!

  • @loercayt6146
    @loercayt6146 Месяц назад

    C A R B O N B A S E D O R G A N I S M

  • @megatherion2695
    @megatherion2695 Месяц назад

    En octopoose ken faurt weeth eets teath

  • @JOEYDEEZ369
    @JOEYDEEZ369 2 месяца назад

    Weird on wonderful… aka WOW…. but still ewwwwww & gross all the same hahahah… all beings are useful on this strangely odd planet !!
    Thank you
    Ciao;)

  • @catherinehubbard1167
    @catherinehubbard1167 2 месяца назад

    So alien, like something evolving on another planet. Yet their core biology, like DNA bases and amino acids and protein synthesis are like ours.

  • @shannonmoorhouse9084
    @shannonmoorhouse9084 Месяц назад

    10000000000000000000000000000000000000 FT

  • @ourcommonancestry6025
    @ourcommonancestry6025 7 месяцев назад

    Great intro but then came the guilt preaching... Man made global warming... Ffs

  • @uppityglivestockian
    @uppityglivestockian 8 месяцев назад +4

    Half an upvote for the video and info, half a downvote for tHe CLimAte cHaNgE Message from On High. We get it, you want to go back to human sacrifices. I'm not lining up for it. No.

    • @andrear.5296
      @andrear.5296 8 месяцев назад +11

      If you don't believe in science, then why are you here?

    • @uppityglivestockian
      @uppityglivestockian 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@andrear.5296 MBARI does science, Climate Change is a scam with guessing sold as "facts." So, ask yourself your own question, gullible geek.

    • @rremmy72
      @rremmy72 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@andrear.5296 because it's propaganda , not science

    • @andrear.5296
      @andrear.5296 8 месяцев назад

      @@rremmy72 All the clichés about Americans are true. The bad thing: Unfortunately, it also spills over across the big pond. Bitter.

    • @meneerdepeer1603
      @meneerdepeer1603 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@andrear.5296where are you from. Im from Holland and are happy to enlighten you about this subject ;)

  • @tracycroll4325
    @tracycroll4325 6 месяцев назад

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae

  • @Insultontop
    @Insultontop Месяц назад

    People who cam from @idksterling
    👇

  • @LaidBackGolf
    @LaidBackGolf Месяц назад

    well guess i'm not swiming in ocean anymore