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Watch 'spaghetti monster' with dozens of pink-tipped sausage legs swimming near Nazca Ridge
New footage shows a "flying spaghetti monster" waving its many arms nearly 2,200 feet (665 meters) below the surface, near an underwater mountain off the coast of Chile.
Scientists captured the footage with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) deployed from the research vessel Falkor (too) close to a previously unexplored seamount on the Nazca Ridge, an underwater mountain chain in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. In the video, the spaghetti monster (Bathyphysa conifera) is filmed up close, revealing the creature's pink-tipped, sausage-like arms and other filamentous appendages.
"The seamounts of the Southeastern Pacific host remarkable biological diversity," Alex David Rogers, a marine biologist and science director at Ocean Census, a global program that aims to accelerate the discovery of marine species and participated in the discovery, said in a statement.
Researchers spotted the flying spaghetti monster roughly 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, near a little-known seamount that towers 10,200 feet (3,109 m) above the seafloor.
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Flying spaghetti monsters are colonial organisms made up of thousands of multicellular "zooids" that each contribute to a specific function, such as reproduction or digestion. Spaghetti monsters are carnivorous and typically live between 3,300 and 9,900 feet (1,000 to 3,000 m) deep. They can grow several feet long, according to the statement.
The expedition that captured the new footage, led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, is the third of its kind to explore mountain chains off the coast of Chile this year. Previous expeditions between January and February uncovered more than 100 new species and a gigantic seamount along the Nazca Ridge and neighboring Salas y Gómez Ridge.
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