{"id":116461,"date":"2020-11-30T07:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-confirm-entirely-new-species-of-gelatinous-blob-from-the-deep-dark-sea"},"modified":"2020-12-01T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:58:49","slug":"scientists-confirm-entirely-new-species-of-gelatinous-blob-from-the-deep-dark-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-confirm-entirely-new-species-of-gelatinous-blob-from-the-deep-dark-sea","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Confirm Entirely New Species of Gelatinous Blob From The Deep, Dark Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o0nkwCKpaRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have formally identified a new species of undersea creature based solely on high-definition video footage captured at the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>And what an undersea creature it is. Meet <em>Duobrachium sparksae <\/em>\u2013 a strange, gelatinous species of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ctenophora\">ctenophore<\/a>, encountered by the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) <em>Deep Discoverer<\/em> during a dive off the coast of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>That encounter took place back in 2015, but when you\u2019re laying claim to discovering a wholly new species \u2013 based solely on video evidence, for that matter, with no physical specimens to help make your case \u2013 it helps to do your due diligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have formally identified a new species of undersea creature based solely on high-definition video footage captured at the bottom of the ocean. And what an undersea creature it is. Meet Duobrachium sparksae \u2013 a strange, gelatinous species of ctenophore, encountered by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116527,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116461\/revisions\/116527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}