A beautiful ‘giant’ siphonophore Apolemia spiral sea creature recorded on Ningaloo Canyons 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_Ocean pic.twitter.com/QirkIWDu6S
— Schmidt Ocean (@SchmidtOcean) April 6, 2020
For more about the structure and growth of a siphonophore, each of which is a colonial animal with many specialized multicellular bodies all cloned from one embryo, check out the CreatureCast animation:
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