14 DAY TRIAL // They might be extremely bright and have some of the coolest minds ever, but even researchers have trouble doing their job every once in a while.
For instance, media reports say it took them two years to identify an alleged sea monster that was caught on camera swimming in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The supposed sea monster, footage of which is available below, was filmed at a depth of about 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) by a camera operator surveying part of an oil rig, Metro informs.
According to marine biologists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Center, this odd-looking sea monster filmed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012 was not some distant relative of Cthulhu, but a jellyfish.
A seriously oversized placental jellyfish likely to strike fear into anyone who dared to come a tad too close to it, to be more precise.
What's interesting is that, as detailed by wildlife researchers, this species is usually found swimming around in the cold waters of the Antarctic. Thus, there is no telling what this particular specimen was doing in the Gulf of Mexico.
In order to identify this colored jellyfish that many assumed was a sea monster, marine biologists closely examined its anatomy and focused on whatever body parts were visible in the video.
