{"id":311,"date":"2009-12-17T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T06:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=311"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:53:03","slug":"big-red-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/big-red-pacific-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG RED: (PACIFIC OCEAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"discovered-species\"<\/a>These gelatinous blood-red predators were discovered in the Monterey Submarine Canyon in 2003.<\/p>\n

First discovered in 2003 – at a depth of over 2,000-feet, in a section of the Pacific Ocean known as the Monterey Submarine Canyon, which is located off the California coast – these 3-foot wide, predatory jellyfish are unlike any others known to modern science.<\/p>\n

Dubbed “granrojo” (which is Spanish for “big red”) by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, this creature has been described in the May 5 – 2003, issue of National Geographic<\/a> as being a “gelatinous blood-red cannonball between two and three feet across that floats through the deep ocean waters quietly devouring prey.”<\/p>\n

Marine biologist Larry Madin, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, compared the significance of this discovery to that of finding a new large feline: “The discovery of Big Red is a little like finding the first member of the cat family. It is a pretty interesting find.”<\/p>\n

George Matsumoto, a jelly specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, who named the species had this to say: “We know almost nothing about it. What it does. What it eats. What eats it… It’s very large, it’s a predator and we assume that it must play an important role in the deep sea.”<\/p>\n

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