NYT: This Might Be the Longest Creature Ever Seen in the Ocean

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Nerida Wilson couldn’t take her eyes off the computer screen. Some 2,000 feet beneath the research boat she was aboard, a creature drifted past in the shape of a vast, galactic swirl. By her team’s estimates, it was 150 feet long.

“It looked like an incredible U.F.O.,” said Dr. Wilson, a senior research scientist at the Western Australian Museum

This Might Be the Longest Creature Ever Seen in the Ocean (Published 2020)

Scientists spotted a swirling siphonophore off Western Australia that was 150 feet long.

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Siphonophorae - Wikipedia

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Watch This Giant, Eerie, String-Like Sea Creature Hunt for Food in the Indian Ocean

Researchers shared a video of this massive siphonophore, one of the longest of its kind ever recorded

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