Detecting strange sea creatures off the Philippines

While searching for millions of isolated marine organisms in the southern Philippines, scientists have found many strange creatures that they believe have never been discovered before, including a fish shaped. Yellow trunk lid and a strange black jellyfish.

Dr. Larry Madin, head of the Celebes Marine Research Project in the southern Philippines, said scientists have come to one of the deepest alleged waters in the world to look for organisms that may have been isolated. million years.

The project is coordinated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (USA), National Geographic magazine and the Philippine government. More than 20 American and Filipino scientists and a group of National Geographic experts, including Emory Kristof, a photojournalist who once resonated from the wreck of the Titanic expedition in 1985, participated in this journey.

According to Dr. Madin, the Celebes Sea is the center of the ' coral triangle ', surrounded by three countries of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. The area is rated by experts as having the highest level of biodiversity in the world with a variety of underground corals, a community of fish and other marine treasures.

The deepest area of ​​the Celebes Sea can be as deep as 5,000 meters, but Dr. Larry Madin's research team can only explore at a depth of 2,800 meters, using a remote-controlled camera.

Returning to Manila, after two weeks of exploration, scientists collected about 100 different species of marine life, including those thought to be first discovered as a transparent sea cucumber, one strange black jellyfish and a yellow worm have about 10 antennae that look like a squid.

Some beautiful images of strange creatures have just been discovered.

A glowing jellyfish.

A larval squid is seen through a microscope.

A deep sea jellyfish species Atolla.

A jellyfish belongs to the family Aequorea.

The ark-shaped fish, one of the many exotic marine creatures discovered recently in the Celebes waters of Asia.

VTH