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 ...

Nothing ruins a nice seaside swim than someone shouting about something swimming in the crystal clear waters, right next to ...

The siphonophores are an order of organisms in the Cnidaria phylum that look like lumps or spirals of string. Found in all oceans and all ocean depths, these animals are abundant and adaptive. And ...

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A diver made a disturbing discovery during a nighttime swim off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico. Pedro Valencia first spotted a bizarre creature and realized it was the rare siphonophore.

Researchers at the University of Oregon have decoded the propulsion system of a siphonophore and discovered that it is built for both speed and efficiency. Whereas jellyfish and squid only have ...

A Casper octopus photographed deep underwater. Discovered in 2016, this is the first time this rare octopus species—yet to receive its scientific name—has been seen in the Southern Pacific.

The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, which means many individual polyps work together to as a single unit, according to information from Texas A&M Galveston Campus. Advertisement Article ...

News; World news; Marine Life; Ghostly sea creature which is almost totally transparent drags fish to their doom Pedro Valencia discovered a 'siphonophore' while diving in Mexico which despite ...

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A submersible off the coast of Western Australia chanced upon a 45-metre-long deep-sea siphonophore arranged in a feeding spiral, trailing its deadly tentacles ...

Siphonophores feed on a variety of small sea animals, including plankton, fish and small crustaceans. The species that use toxins to capture prey have zooids that contain tiny but deadly tentacles ...