It looks like something out of this world, but its home is right here on Earth, in the Pacific Ocean.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Okeanos Explorer, which is exploring the depths of the Mariana Trench, encountered a strange-looking jellyfish on one of its expeditions.
WATCH: New jellfish discovered in Mariana Trench
The rover made the discovery at the Enigma Seamount, at a depth of 3,700 metres. The Mariana Trench is home to the deepest point on Earth at 11 kilometres, called the Challenger Deep.
NOAA believes the new glowing jellyfish to be a hydromedusa as belonging to the Crossota genus.
The jellyfish’s position at the beginning of the video, where its long tentacles are extended outward and motionless, suggests that it is in “ambush predation mode,” NOAA said of the video.
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