Schmidt Ocean estimated the siphonophore's outer ring at 49 feet (15 meters) in diameter. While the siphonophore, which is related to jellyfish, looks like it's all one animal, it's actually a ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

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 ...

A Portuguese man o’ war is actually a siphonophore, which is a collection or colony of individual organisms. Siphonophores are closely related to jellyfish, but they aren’t the same.

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 ...

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 ...