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An early access peak at my next film! Deep sea jellyfish are true oddities! In this sneak peak, we take a look at a few examples of the giants among their ranks!

The first, Deepstaria, is unusual among jellies, belonging to a group known as the ulmerids, many of which lack true tentacles. As a result, it feeds in an unusual manner, engulfing prey, before pulling the opening of its bell closed like a draw-string bag. Its digestive system adorns the bell in a mesh-like pattern, spread thin [pause] to distribute nutrients across its great surface.

Other ulmerids without tentacles have developed their own feeding strategies. The big red jelly, Tiburonia, has a bell like a beach ball and stubby finger-like arms, lined all over with tiny wart-like concentrations of stinging cells.

The giant phantom jelly, Stygiomedusa gigantea, has arms like curtains that can reach 10 metres in length, draped through the water column. This is the largest of the Ulmerids, and one of the largest of all known jellyfish in the ocean, sometimes found as deep as 6,700 metres in the ocean’s Hadal Zone.

The arms lack stinging cells altogether, and are used to swathe and engulf prey within the enormous bell, that can expand by up to five times!!