This strange ocean creature is called a siphonophore🪱

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]This looks like a floating strand of DNA, but it's actually a siphonophore.

[00:00:07]And it's not just one animal.

[00:00:09]It's a colony of tiny specialized bodies working together as one organism. Some can grow longer than a blue whale, which means one [music] of the strangest things in the ocean is also one of the longest.