olindias formosus is like the milk creature, because they always show up with many buckets of milk and flowers

the milk comes in many colours and flavours, like pink menagerie, black charcoal, baby blue dress, white blood and puce-ish sweet puke, and the flowers are fun to look at and melt into nothing if you touch them

if they ever tell you where the milk and flowers come from please keep it to yourself. telling someone else might make them repulsed by them

glorpiness rating: ♡♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎!!

photographed by kuroshio (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Hydromedusa jellies, like this Ptychogena lactea, have umbrella-shaped bells that are often transparent.

They carry stinging nematocysts that stun and capture prey such as larval fish, plankton and other jellies. Ptychogena lactea has up to 500 fine tentacles around the rim of the bell, and grows to 9 centimeters across. This deep-sea jelly was photographed at 447 meters depth. Learn more about the diversity of gelatinous animals:

https://youtu.be/3HzFiQFFQYw

Cosmic Jellyfish

This spectacular little jelly was imaged during our first dive on 'Utu' seamount, on February 21.

The jelly (hydromedusa) is in a family of hydromedusae called Rhopalonematidae, which is known for the canals running vertically on the inside of the bell, gonads attached to these canals, and sometimes having two sets of tentacles.

Scientists have seen this species on previous Okeanos Explorer expeditions. In this video, you can see the perfectly relaxed arrangement of the two sets of tentacles; scientists think this is a position that allows for optimum feeding in the midwater environment at ~3,000 meters. Through remotely operated vehicle video observations such as this, we can learn much about the animals in the midwater and what they are up to when we can catch them in an undisturbed manner.

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