During the filming of David Attenborough’s famous BBC series Blue Planet 2, viewers got a unique insight into just how little our oceans have been explored. Using a Triton submarine, a team of researchers were able to dive 1000m below the surface of Antarctica into an area known as the “midnight zone”. Here, the team uncovered a bizarre creature capable of cloning itself and essentially living forever.
David Attenborough revealed to viewers how the team came across the bizarre creature which is called a Siphonophore.
He said in 2017: “The midnight zone is full of life.
“Down here, in the blackness, creatures live beyond the normal rules of time.
“Siphonophores are virtually eternal.
The Blue Planet team uncovered the creature below Antarctica (Image: BBC)
David Attenborough was stunned by the find (Image: GETTY)
Down here, in the blackness, creatures live beyond the normal rules of time
David Attenborough
“They repeatedly clone themselves and some eventually grow longer than a blue whale.”
Siphonophores are a class of marine animals belonging to
