Look like a party balloon with two strings
Deep in the underwater off the coast of Puerto Rico, researchers of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) first spotted these comb jellies or sea walnuts – called Duobrachium sparksae.
Their bodies are small, about the size of a golf tee ( a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball), six centimetres long. They have eight rows of prickly cilia (hair) wrapped around their translucent body. The body ends at two points attached to long, thin tentacles. Each tentacle is 30 cms long. This gives the creature an appearance like a party balloon with two strings attached to it.
They are vibrant and when they move and pulse, the rows of cilia refract light into a prism of shining colours. This is the first underwater species which is described from pictures alone. Deep Discoverer robot with remotely operated cameras got high resolution images and measured the comb jellies to give an idea about the structure of them.
