Deep-sea dishes:
faux octopus with jelly
While we wait for Spielberg to get around to making “Close Encounters of a Fourth Kind”, we can happily gape at this mothership of a jellyfish.
It’s known affectionately as Aequorea macrodactyla, but not intimately, having only been discovered in a recent “sea census” deep in the Pacific.
Below, looking for all the world like a cute paperweight, possibly Persian judging from the stylisation, is in fact Megaleledone setebos, not an octopus but a close enough kin. And below that, a comb jelly, which, chillingly, is right at home in Canadian waters.
