What is this thing, scientists have found a new unknown animal at the bottom of the ocean, the photo shows a new animal-like species moving under the water, looks like an octopus, but is thinner than an octopus, because the tentacles are much more slender than the octopus antennae.
Recently, a research team from the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences discovered a new strange-looking deep-sea species in the shallow sea 150 to 200 meters west of Australia, with multiple long tentacles that move slowly in the water.
Although it looks very much like a marine animal, the researchers were surprised when they looked closely, because it was actually composed of many smaller creatures that formed a huge whole, which the researchers called a "floating city" and initially thought that it might be a creature called a "benthic siphon".
The discovery did leave researchers with both a little surprise and a little excitement, because globally, this rare seabed creature has few sighting records, which means that there is not much reference, and now it is an unattainable witness opportunity to find out.
No one knows the details of the species, how long they have lived on Earth, what they feed on, how they hunt, where they are located on the marine food chain, and what particular impact they have on the marine ecosystem. So the team thought it was a lucky big discovery.
However, the leader of the research team, Dr. Karen Miller, after reviewing a lot of information, said that benthic siphons live at a depth of 3,000 meters on the ocean floor, and the number is very small, so it is generally difficult for us to discover why it suddenly came to the shallow sea of 150 meters, no one knows why, anyway, this is an exciting new discovery.
Previous research data show that benthic siphons are a whole composed of countless smaller siphons, each with a different function, some of which are dedicated to swimming, some of which are dedicated to predation, and some of which are dedicated to reproduction. They look so professional, like a well-trained army.
Because of this, they lack individual viability, there are currently 188 species of siphons known to humans, countless individuals form a huge body, long tentacles bind them to the bottom of the sea, and their bodies float on it like balloons, so these creatures are very fragile, and it takes special equipment to capture them.
Of course, these pictures and videos alone are difficult to determine their true identity, so to properly identify the species, the team collected some specimens and plans to work with international taxonomists to determine whether the species is a new species or a known species, and why it came to the sea where it should not have appeared. Interesting scientific exploration content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration