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It turns out that in the sea waters you can meet something terrible in appearance and at the same time tender, fluffy and glowing in the dark. it pyrosomes or fireworks that are considered rare and elusive sea creatures, to meet whom – a great success.
It was she who smiled at divers, among whom was the author of this video is Ryan Carpenter. And this amazing thing happened. meeting in the Philippines near the island of Tikao.
According to marine biologist Rebecca Helm, pyrosomes are so rarely come across to people that he even gave them his well-defined definition – ocean unicorns. Firefox, of course, has no horn, they generally consist of many separate organisms that communicate with each other in a kind of cylindrical pipe – a tunic, which is tightly closed on one side and hollow inside.
The sea unicorn captured in this video is slightly longer. more than a meter and it’s ten to twelve centimeters wide, although, as Helm writes, such fireworks grow up to eighteen meters and can be up to two meters in diameter. It turns out that divers lucky, but not so …
But they touched this amazing animal with their hands and determined that it is soft and as if made of feathers, i.e. fluffy. In the dark, such pyrosomes glow bluish-green. light, so these are bioluminescent marine life.
