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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFlying Spaghetti Monster Caught On Camera: This Deep Sea Alien Leads A Bizarre Life
A "spaghetti monster" was seen living deep beneath the waves of the ocean, featuring a myriad of thin appendages resembling cooked pasta. A new video records the rarely seen creature in its natural home.
Bathyphysa conifer was discovered swimming in the waters near Angola by a petroleum development team managed by British Petroleum (BP). The workers, utilizing a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV), recorded video of the strange animal as it went about its life 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the water.
Unable to identify the strange life form, the petroleum workers jokingly named the creature after the deity recognized by adherents of Pastafarianism, a religion that worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
This strange real-life creature is not even a single organism but a collection of various beings, a form of life known as a siphonophore. These are formed from vast numbers of multicellular beings known as zooids, which live in conjunction with others of their species. Each of these networks of organisms begins life from just a single fertilized egg. As the network begins to grow, each of the zooids begins to differentiate into different roles. While some take on the job of digesting nutrients, for instance, others carry out reproduction as their sole contribution to the larger collection.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/76972/20150816/flying-spaghetti-monster-caught-camera-deep-sea-alien-leads-bizarre.htm
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