Scientists Just Found This Weird Jellyfish Deep In The Pacific Ocean

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NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas/oceanexplorergov/YouTube

The deeper into the ocean you go, the weirder life seems to get. It may look like a spaceship out of a sci-fi film, but the creature in this video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is actually a jellyfish.

On April 24, the alien-like hydromedusa was spotted at a depth of around 3,700 meters (12,100 feet) in an area of the Mariana Trench called the Enigma Seamount in the Pacific Ocean.