The freaky sea creature – which one eyewitness likened to a horror sci-fi monster – was caught on camera by a group of divers on the Sataya Reef off the Egyptian coast.
After shocking a party of divers, a strange tube-like creature with no eyes, ears, or mouth has been compared to a sci-fi monster.
Lukas Ostertag of Heidelberg, Germany, was among those who encountered the strange water creature off the coast of Egypt on Sataya Reef.
The bizarre creature shocked a group of divers in Egypt (Image: Credit: Pen News/Lukas Ostertag)
He said: “Its appearance was a long square rubber pipe-like thing with a pointy end. It looked like nothing I’ve seen before.
“It definitely was super strange as it seemed to move on its own and nobody knew what it was.”
“We guessed it to be some kind of polyp or some other strange sea animal.
“It didn’t really resemble anything I knew. People in other groups guessed it to be a worm, some kind of plant, one thought it might be a jellyfish.”
Some divers thought the creature was a worm or a jellyfish (Image: Credit: Pen News/Lukas Ostertag)
Lukas submitted his images with an internet organization dedicated to identifying aquatic species in search of explanations. They appeared to be perplexed as well.
One person wrote: “Wow this thing is a puzzler. I could see it being a siphonophore, soft coral, pyrosome, maybe nemertean, or jellyfish arm.
“I’m stumped!”
Ostertag said that it was super strange and moved slowly on its own, adding that nobody knew what it was.
Another commented: “Looks like a nemertean – ribbon worm, but the jellyfish part is possible as well.”
Finally, Lukas obtained an answer to his mystery when film from another group diving the same reef surfaced. The exact species is likely to be Thysanostoma loriferum, a jellyfish family.
The creature is thought to be a Thysanostoma loriferum, a species of jellyfish (Image: Credit: Pen News)
