This beautiful Spiral Sea Creature is Alive

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.”

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:

 

[#NingalooCanyons]