Remember the mystery blobs that had been found washed up on beaches or caught in nets here and there? Well, this may solve the mystery and it’s a pretty cool answer:
(Fox News) — The creature looks like nothing seen before, with speculators on the online forum suggesting everything from a jellyfish to the remains of a whale placenta. “It’s probably one that has been regenerating since the dawn of time and has finally reached level 9999,” one user joked.
But that deepwater enigma is no mystery: It’s actually a Deepstaria enigmatica, said oceanographer Steven Haddock.
It’s a very weird form of cnidarian, aka jellies and corals. This one just has an weird morphology, said to appear like a folding, translucent sheet and undulate like a lava lamp when it moves. Take a look.
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Phillip IV
May 13, 2012 at 9:46 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
My biology textbook had nothing of that sort in it – but my AD&D Monster Manual did: the Sheet Phantom.
sabrinawolfgang
May 13, 2012 at 10:34 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
it looks like a dirtied tablecloth that went down with the titanic…
F
May 13, 2012 at 10:15 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Isn’t that wicked cool.
Stacy
May 14, 2012 at 12:24 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I think M.R. James wrote a story about its land cousin.