January 3, 2009

WTF Was That!?!: Deep-Sea Siphonophore

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This is a video of a deep-sea (770-meters to be exact) siphonophore doing its thing. What the f*** is a siphonophore?

...an eerily fantastic creature that appears to be a single, large organism, but which is actually a colony of numerous individual jellyfish-like animals that behave and function together as a single entity. The individual units, called zooids, all share the same genetic material and each perform a specialized role within the colony. The best-known siphonophore is the poisonous Portuguese Man o' War.

Mmmm, I can almost taste the wasabi and soy sauce from here.

Siphonophore: Deep-sea superorganism [pinktentacle]

Thanks to Jack, a personal friend who knows I'm a sucker for new sushi.

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