Amazing shape-shifting marine creature caught on camera

[Judi Lynn]

Amazing shape-shifting marine creature caught on camera
Duration: 01:01 2 hrs ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/amazing-shape-shifting-marine-creature-caught-on-camera/vi-AAAppuI

[Rhiannon12866]

1. What is that??

[Judi Lynn]

2. They didn't bother to say, and I've never seen anything about it before this video.

I'll be keeping my eye out for anything about it.

So wierd! Whooooo!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. "Shape shifting" definitely describes it!

[LakeSuperiorView]

21. They said it was a Gulper Eel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_eel

[Laffy Kat]

3. That's what I want to know!

Squid? Snake? Octopus? Jelly?

[Rhiannon12866]

5. It doesn't look the same for more than a moment...

It could be anything...

[mahina]

13. In the video the narrator said it was a 'gulper eel' gulping. If you watch the video, on the other

Side of the dumb car ad, he goes back to a really beautiful eel shape.

And then the narrator says he was spotted on a Hawaiian reef, but all there is there is rocks.

So I don’t know how much he knows!

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Oh, thanks!

An eel makes sense, I knew it wasn't a fish. I'll have to watch again, s/he was kinda mesmerizing...

[Judi Lynn]

6. Haven't found anything, but did find a site with other fish which change appearances:

19 Crazy Awesome Sea Creatures That Can Change Their Shape, Color, And Size
Cynthia Griffith

https://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-sea-creatures-camouflage/cynthia-griffith

[Rhiannon12866]

10. They're all pretty amazing, but nothing like the original shape shifter...

That one barely looks real!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Pretty cool!! We got a slippery eel-like shape-shifter in the White House...

The Dotard changes shape, most often, from being a toad-like dickwad to a flaming asshole.

[Doreen]

9. Now now do not go insulting eels.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

22. My bad... apologies to all the eels in the world out there.

[Doreen]

25. -

[Doreen]

8. It was said very quickly in the beginning of the video that it is a Gulper eel.

It is an eel like fish ( did not say that part, I looked it up.) That fish is beautiful.

[mr_lebowski]

12. Eels are fish, though ...

Just sayin'

[pansypoo53219]

18. that's what i thought.

[Doreen]

24. I did not know that.

I was just going by the report I was reading. I learned something today.

[mr_lebowski]

27. I know, right, seems like they'd be like ... I dunno, reptiles maybe?

But nope, snake-like fish is what they are

[Sedona]

11. More here

http://www.nautiluslive.org/video/2018/09/20/gulper-eel-balloons-its-massive-jaws

Gulper Eel Balloons Its Massive Jaws
Big gulp! The Nautilus team spotted a gulper eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) doing just that in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Its pouch-like mouth can inflate in an instant, scooping up much larger prey just like a pelican--and giving it that muppet-like look! This gulper eel was likely a juvenile, as this species can grow up to three feet in length.

This is an awesome site with deep l8ve l9ve streams, they're live right now

http://www.nautiluslive.org/

[mahina]

14. Thanks! I heard that too and never in my life ever heard of that kind of eel. Holy Moses.

[DetlefK]

17. Looks like a Pelican Eel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_eel

[TreasonousBastard]

19. If you go to the original site, there's lots of good stuff there...

http://www.nautiluslive.org

(including this gulper eel video)

Thanks for posting this. The oceans are still a largely unexplored mystery.

(Oops. I see someone beat me to it.)

[Fullduplexxx]

20. Jeez everything comes with an ad

[Judi Lynn]

23. Found a longer view of this guy:

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

26. OOH!! That looks like a member of the eel family, as in a

pelagic member of the Moray family. I think...? That "balloon-like' lower jaw clinks it for me...