{"id":497623,"date":"2026-01-06T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:48:10","slug":"giant-phantom-jellyfish-spotted-deep-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497623\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant phantom jellyfish spotted deep in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel<\/a>, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly<\/a> (Stygiomedusa gigantea). The enormous deep-sea<\/a> jellyfish was spotted about 830 feet below the surface<\/a> of the Pacific Ocean by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) exploring the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon wall off the coast of Argentina.<\/p>\n

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During a dive over the winter holidays<\/a>, the team explored the wall of a submarine canyon and encountered the creature\u2014also called the giant phantom jelly. It is a very rare find, with only about 118 sightings over 110 years<\/a>. It is believed to be widespread throughout the world\u2019s oceans, except in the Arctic Ocean. Giant phantom jellyfish have four long oral arms<\/a> that do not sting the way the tentacles<\/a> on other jellyfish do. Instead, they use these appendages to grab their prey and guide it towards their mouths<\/p>\n

According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California, they can reach lengths of 3.3 feet across and 33 feet long. MBARI\u2019s ROV Tiburon previously spotted a fish swimming alongside of the giant phantom jelly<\/a> during an expedition to the Gulf of California. The team watched the fish hover above the jellyfish\u2019s bulbous body and swim in and out of its arms. Since the waters of the ocean\u2019s Midnight Zone<\/a> (about 3,300 to 13,100 feet) offer little shelter, many creatures find shelter in the gelatinous animals like jellyfish that live here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[52860,31724,223655,223654,223652,159,223653,223656,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-497623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-jellyfish","9":"tag-pacific-ocean","10":"tag-remotely-operated-vehicle","11":"tag-schmidt-ocean","12":"tag-schmidt-ocean-institute","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-stygiomedusa-gigantea","15":"tag-submarine-canyon","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115850831599217972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}