The Black Carpet Ocean Creature

About a bazillion creatures that look like they re straight out of a salvador dali brainstorm session.

The black carpet ocean creature.

Footage from the us government has set off a wave of conspiracy theories over what appears to be a mysterious sea beast in alaska. What we have charted however has turned up some seriously curious discoveries namely. I ve heard about a possible urban legend about a deep sea creature known among divers as the black carpet. It is said to be a giant flat black siphonophore that is about a mile long wide and covered in feelers with an occasional 20ish foot long transparent tentacle.

It is not a hydrozoa or a siphonophore it is described as a mile long black carpet of creatures imagine a stingray hovering over the surface of water but a mile long and composed of strange little tentacle thingies that suck up the nutrients off of the ocean floor and sort of swipe across it. Legend of the deep sea black carpet from diveranon giant sea anemones the bloop these are stories from diveranon discussing potential biological origins of the bloop or other unidentified sea sounds the black carpet and generally just what bizarre organisms may still be lurking undiscovered. A group of 40 scientists from 17 different nations teamed up to search the freezing pitch black area using cameras and other equipment. Researchers estimate the creature which is related to jellyfish and corals has an outer ring that is approximately 154 feet long.

With these tools they were able to find three interesting. 06 10 mon oct 31 2016. We re talking about the blob sculpin or the tasseled wobbegong or the aptly named terrible claw lobster. The black dragonfish has a scientific designation too difficult to pronounce but it is truly one of the most intimidating creatures found in the sea.

By oli smith published.