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

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MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

8 ай бұрын

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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@chase_modugno 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@JerusalemCome Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@jdanielortega 8 ай бұрын

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

@nevereverforever0010-uf9su 7 ай бұрын

bahahhahahhhahahhahahhaa HUMBLIN eh ahah

@kij7412 3 ай бұрын

Thats how far away from nature humanity got...

@carlmorton9160 3 ай бұрын

@@kij7412 Before we could even see most of it

@ITALIERMAN 3 ай бұрын

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

@arlenehotep381 2 ай бұрын

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

@arliafrink3043 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@bhasty1 8 ай бұрын

These videos never cease to amaze me.

@nevereverforever0010-uf9su 7 ай бұрын

its soooo beautiful i looooove the sea

@ella.r 8 ай бұрын

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

@chelseafisher6881 2 ай бұрын

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

@boundsgreenboy8354 8 ай бұрын

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

@ZadakLeader 8 ай бұрын

Yet again, oceans more interesting than space

@arlenehotep381 2 ай бұрын

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

@andrewkelley9405 8 ай бұрын

sea floofs.

@master_shorts6188 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this channel ❤❤❤

@callunas 8 ай бұрын

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

@geocelta1961 2 ай бұрын

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

@thechosenone5644 7 ай бұрын

new siphonophore just dropped let’s goooooooo

@marquibalbuena3624 27 күн бұрын

This and the climate change update

@tichu7 8 ай бұрын

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.

@timohara7717 6 ай бұрын

Even if they do they can just break

@bezoticallyyours83 3 ай бұрын

Heh heh

@sugreev2001 3 ай бұрын

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

@merlim5494 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@jlioncrew1334 Ай бұрын

The Woolly Siphonophore is my favourite Jellyfish

@PnayNuub 3 ай бұрын

What a soothing voice😊

@pocketsnacks 3 ай бұрын

This is amazing!

@thebraveomar7780 2 ай бұрын

I m so proud to watch this channel 🎇✨✨

@rhondahuggins9542 8 ай бұрын

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💙

@constantinpaduraru6875 8 ай бұрын

Faceti o treaba excelenta❤

@kahanuermeyas-tulu4056 8 ай бұрын

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

@creamycold1681 6 ай бұрын

That thing was created amazingly

@LimousGuyMemory 8 ай бұрын

Cool animals

@m3l_o 8 ай бұрын

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

@TrevorLaVigne 8 ай бұрын

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

@timohara7717 6 ай бұрын

I mena they don't really care when it happens

@gibbons9599 Ай бұрын

Friends doing their best

@TechGamesAU 8 ай бұрын

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

@xtieburn 8 ай бұрын

How does it avoid eating itself?

@coastaltechnologies2329 7 ай бұрын

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

@AreHan1991 2 ай бұрын

Trippy!

@user-uu5ui9kk4s Ай бұрын

It does

@user-su3tj1uk2k 6 ай бұрын

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

@ThevinKothalawala-wo3pd 7 ай бұрын

Great they have fur now

@bezoticallyyours83 3 ай бұрын

Wow

@ellenlandowski1659 2 ай бұрын

How do such delicatecanimals live at such intense water pressures.

@SalamaSond 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

@@MBARIvideohow do they reproduce?

@bezoticallyyours83 3 ай бұрын

@@MBARIvideothat's very interesting

@MCNarret 11 күн бұрын

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

@wildfornature670 2 ай бұрын

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

@toastedwatermeln 2 ай бұрын

good question

@Tennisball999 Ай бұрын

“The source of all living matter”

@familysystem 3 ай бұрын

I LOVE THIS FUCKING THANG!

@marcsaturnino1041 2 ай бұрын

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

@Apolemia 6 ай бұрын

SIPHONOPHORE LETS GOOO

@jordache409 3 ай бұрын

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

@warcatbattalion 29 күн бұрын

Another Crab's Treasure

@jipes 8 ай бұрын

FAscinating

@bmolitor615 7 ай бұрын

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

@AndrewK209 5 ай бұрын

Fishes

@blubastud 3 ай бұрын

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

@cherokeeschill 6 ай бұрын

Siphonophore. It's a siphonophore.

@Abdullah12689 8 ай бұрын

سبحان الله

@Aninat0R 4 ай бұрын

This makes me uncomfortable

@pharossymphony 8 ай бұрын

did you say 'fishes' ?

@MBARIvideo 8 ай бұрын

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!

@megatherion2695 Ай бұрын

En octopoose ken faurt weeth eets teath

@user-jj3ee5fn4d 2 ай бұрын

Not creature,IT is society?

@loralii 8 ай бұрын

😮😮😮😮😮😮

@JOEYDEEZ369 2 ай бұрын

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;)

@Lyons_T-BAG 3 ай бұрын

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

@skullyinc. 21 күн бұрын

Now someone draw it as a Hot anime woman

@loercayt6146 Ай бұрын

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

@catherinehubbard1167 3 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

10000000000000000000000000000000000000 FT

@ourcommonancestry6025 8 ай бұрын

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

@uppityglivestockian 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@uppityglivestockian 8 ай бұрын

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

@rremmy72 8 ай бұрын

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

@andrear.5296 8 ай бұрын

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

@meneerdepeer1603 7 ай бұрын

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