From giant gelatinous squid egg balls to this siphonophore that seems to stretch on forever, we're still discovering wild and wonderful new sights in the deep.

Some compared it to a UFO, while others thought it looked like a giant heap of silly-string. The discovery was breathtaking on many counts — it was the first siphonophore sighting in that area ...

As Tessa Koumoundouros reports for Science Alert, researchers recently captured this footage of a giant Apolemia siphonophore off the coast of West Australia. With an estimated 49-foot-wide ...

Scientists on a research vessel spotted a giant creature that has been compared ... shared a stunning video of the Apolemia, a type of siphonophore, on Twitter Monday that was captured during ...

Liz writes about the ocean and its protection. This article is more than 5 years old. The giant siphonophore, Apolemia, recorded on an expedition of Australia's Ningaloo Canyons in a ...

"Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition. It seems likely that this specimen is the largest ever recorded, and in strange UFO-like feeding ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute‘s expedition has found a giant siphonophore, which is closely related to a jellyfish. This creature could be the largest ever recorded since it has an outer “ring ...

One example of siphonophore feeding was captured by marine biologists in western Australia in 2020. They discovered a 150-foot giant siphonophore (Praya dubia) in a "doom spiral," which traps ...

“Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition,” read a Monday Twitter post by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, noting its “strange UFO-like ...

Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition. It seems likely that this specimen is the largest ever recorded, and in strange UFO-like feeding ...

since powerful currents close to the surface can shred siphonophore colonies apart. Giant siphonophores arrange themselves in long stem structures. These structures are composed of chains of several ...

Given it took so long for humans to set eyes on this ginormous siphonophore, it raises the question, are there more giant animals humans haven't discovered yet? The answer is almost certainly yes.