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https://www.livescience.com/64112-feather-boa-sea-creature-video.html
An undulating ribbon of silver surprised divers near northern New Zealand in October — but not so much that they couldn't get it on video.
The resulting film shows a floating "feather boa" of the sea, properly known as a pyrosome. The 26-foot-long (8 meters) tube is not a single creature, according to The Washington Post, but rather a colony of tiny creatures called tunicates.
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This is a rarely seen biological phenomenon of microscopic organisms forming a free-floating colony made up of vast numbers of the same creature, called Pyrosoma spinosum. The softly bioluminescent tube was 26 feet long & is known as a pyrosome.
An undulating ribbon of silver surprised divers near northern New Zealand in October — but not so much that they couldn't get it on video.
The resulting film shows a floating "feather boa" of the sea, properly known as a pyrosome. The 26-foot-long (8 meters) tube is not a single creature, according to The Washington Post, but rather a colony of tiny creatures called tunicates.
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This is a rarely seen biological phenomenon of microscopic organisms forming a free-floating colony made up of vast numbers of the same creature, called Pyrosoma spinosum. The softly bioluminescent tube was 26 feet long & is known as a pyrosome.