See mysterious spaghetti-like sea creature recently found

Okay, this may be too much science for one day, but then again we have the moral obligation to be curious about the flight of the spaghetti monster.

Shortly after, though, National Oceanography Center researchers from Southampton in England unraveled the mystery by declaring it was a siphonophore.

Despite what everyone keeps saying, the unusual thing is not a bowl of spaghetti turned upside down in water that somehow caught life. Crewmembers had no idea what the creature was, so they likened it to they mythical flying spaghetti monster.

ROV (remotely operated vehicle) operators from Oceaneering worldwide, a provider of oil exploration equipment, have captured fascinating footage of a rarely seen deep-sea creature off the coast of Angola.

The fans of the famous atheist Richard Dawkins are surely acquainted to the “flying spaghetti monster”, which is a term that was first devised by Bobby Henderson in his open letter to the Kansas School Board. His letter went viral and the flying spaghetti monster became an Internet phenomenon, creating pseudo-Pastafarians worldwide. After that, Philip Pugh, Jones’s colleague detected the creature as possibly Bathyphysa conifera.

As the siphonophore website explains, scientists who study these animals rely heavily on ROVs and other special equipment to dive down deep and examine these spectacular and wonderfully weird-looking creatures. Siphonophores may look a lot like jellyfish, their not too distant cousins, but they stand alone as a separate species. It seems that B. conifer lacks a third part of the body dubbed nectosome which would comprise zooids responsible for motility. In the case of B. conifer, some of the constituent zooids specialize in catching food and eating it, while others specialize in reproducing, for example.

Siphonophores reproduce with the means of a single egg.

This little floating spaghetti monster is becoming a star in its own right. Oddly enough, some researchers actually see something in these animals, as Catriona Munro, of the World Register of Marine Species, said that it was “beautiful”. These organisms are called zooids and each one is very simple but they come together to form a far more complex organism.