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The time has come to the 21st century.
Russian journalist and writer Vlad Vilenov documented a series of giant invertebrate sightings, including the aforementioned events, in his 2010 work The Secret Art Book of the Four Oceans. He mentioned that in May 1990, Russian print media was filled with reports of mass deaths of marine animals.
Environmentalists attributed this incident to a submarine accident concealed by the media or to the dumping of chemical agents into the sea by a military force from a certain country.
Biologists from the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Research Institute conducted independent examinations of the carcasses and concluded that the deaths of these marine organisms were influenced by some kind of biological toxin. At that time, Russia did not have a chemical industry capable of producing such toxins.
Soon, in 1991 and 1992, similar mass die-offs of fish and marine life occurred in many regions around the world, including off the coast of Canada, North Carolina in the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Sea of Japan. Scientists ultimately blamed this phenomenon on some undiscovered marine organism.
Although I may not have found relevant reports and expert papers from that time due to possibly incorrect directions in my search for Russian literature or strict archival standards, if researchers truly reached such conclusions, it raises questions.
Considering recent human actions that have harmed the oceans, I personally believe that blaming an unknown organism capable of destroying ecosystems worldwide is clearly unconvincing.
Additionally, Vlad Vilenov recorded a report from French media in 2005.
The report mentioned that French diver Henry Astaire had signed a contract with a Thai company and was invited to work in the Gulf of Thailand. That day, he and his companions descended about 80 meters from their mother ship using a special Protective Dragon until they spotted a school of large fish and stopped their descent.
At that moment, they noticed a strange phenomenon: a bizarre brown object of unimaginable size was slowly rising toward the school of fish from the depths below.
When it reached about 10 to 15 meters away from the fish, their behavior suddenly became odd; some individuals became rigid and then flipped over or rolled sideways, slowly sinking toward that brown mass.
Soon after, all the surrounding fish met the same fate. Despite Henry's objections, his partner decided to swim closer to see what was happening. However, he did not return after 15 minutes.
Henry immediately sounded the alarm. When rescuers descended to their location, they found nothing; that massive brown entity had already sunk into the depths of the ocean, and they could not even find the body of that diver.
The above is a report regarding sightings of the Giant Jellyfish.
In fact, there is no consensus among scholars about whether what witnesses have seen is indeed a Giant Jellyfish.
Paul Willis, the editor of the International Cryptozoology Organization journal, analyzed the sighting incident from 1953 involving Christopher Columbus in an article published in 1972.
He noted that although the incident is dated 1953, the accounts we currently have are a condensed version of Professor Russell's original documents, making it difficult to verify much of the information.
However, he argued that this incident cannot be entirely dismissed as fictional, as the creature described by the witnesses resembles a giant individual of a dispersed Octopus living in the deep sea.
The aforementioned cryptozoologist Garryman Cephalopod explicitly stated in his work that the Giant Jellyfish near Bermuda could potentially exist.
He believes that while the size of biological organisms is limited by various factors, it is theoretically possible for larger species of Giant Jellyfish, yet to be discovered by humans, to exist based on known species.
Cryptozoologist Dr. Karl Schuch pointed out that divers did not observe any tentacle features in their records; some cnidarians, particularly deep-sea species, indeed lack tentacles. The sudden paralysis of sharks could also be explained by the toxic nature of the Giant Jellyfish's lion's mane.
He specifically mentioned a similar species known as Elemental Jellyfish.
This is a very rare large Giant Jellyfish belonging to the Yangxu Water Jellyfish Family, which lacks tentacles.
It has been found in cold water areas surrounding the Pacific, North Atlantic, and Antarctica. The body is wide and thin; the largest individual discovered has a diameter of about one meter and is covered with numerous stinging cells and fine hairs.
Unlike the common Moon Jellyfish, species under Elemental Jellyfish do not have tentacles; they generally rely on the extensibility of their bodies to envelop prey and then use stinging cells to kill it. This organism typically lives in dimly lit waters at depths ranging from 500 to 1800 meters.
In terms of morphology and behavior, the Giant Jellyfish witnessed by observers bears a striking resemblance to the Elemental Jellyfish, aside from size differences. Additionally, regarding cnidarians, cryptozoologist Professor Chad Arment mentioned a report from an internet news group in his commentary on North American appendices in 2000.
The article's author recounts the story of his late friend George Hale, who worked as an underwater welder for Gulf Oil Company in the 1970s. While working on an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, he encountered a giant invertebrate that he found impossible to describe. In comparison to this creature's size, humans seemed like ants.
That was the first and last time he experienced such fear. It was during his first flight on an Anti-Image helicopter, and since then, he had never seen the ocean again.
Hale described the predator's colors and textures as resembling a Sea Anemone, while its shape was similar to a Starfish or something aquatic. This incident depicted another unknown giant stinging creature aside from the Giant Jellyfish.
Considering all the known information, I believe the credibility of the Giant Jellyfish sightings is questionable, but the possibility of such a creature's existence remains. Firstly, I find that the sources of all sightings are not very clear.
I have not found any original reports or detailed records of interviewee information, such as original documents from 1953, missing subject information from the 1968 incident, or references to paper media archives mentioned in 2010.
All these events feel like hearing a legend, akin to stories passed down through word of mouth.
Of course, this may be due to my personal limitations or some historical issues causing information gaps, but I still feel there is a lack of key credible elements.
The reason I believe there is a possibility for such a creature's existence is that I consider the Giant Jellyfish to have strong environmental adaptability. They have been found in various depths and locations around the globe, with some populations exhibiting remarkable ecological traits.
For instance, species under the Lighthouse Jellyfish genus can theoretically achieve immortality by undergoing reverse development between their water-absorbing bodies and those of Giant Jellyfish, allowing them to avoid external factors.
Moreover, the Giant Jellyfish is one of the oldest multicellular animals on Earth. Modern research indicates that this creature has an evolutionary history dating back at least 700 million years or even further into the Precambrian era.
With its astonishing biological attributes combined with the vastness of the ocean, we have reason to believe that some giant populations of Giant Jellyfish may inhabit depths yet unexplored by humans.
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