Thai Panda: Unidentified floating object: Mysterious blob filmed in the deep

-YouTube video leaves commentators baffled
-Creature could be a jellyfish - but it appears to have organs
-It could be a discarded whale placenta - but it has strange markings
-It could be a fishing net - but it seems to move under its own control

By EDDIE WRENN

Deep sea jellyfish or whale placenta? No-one has yet been able to confirm this creature's origins

A mysterious ocean 'blob' has been recorded by a deep-sea remote-controlled underwater camera.
The creature looks like nothing seen before, with speculators suggesting it is everything from a jellyfish to the remains of a whale placenta.
While, at a quick glance, the description of a jellyfish makes sense, the creature has organs and appendages never spotted on a jellyfish before.
Meanwhile it could be a whale placenta, but if that is the case then the hexagonal shapes on the skin are a mystery.
If it is a jellyfish, it might be a Stygiomedusa Gigantea. This type of jellyfish - which can grow up to six metres in length - has only been spotted 114 times in 110 years, so details on it are scant.

Objects within: The creature appears to have very un-jellyfish-like qualities, such as this sack of organic looking flesh

Here the hexagonal markings on the creature can be seen - something else which implies this is not a jellyfish

But again, the appendages get in the way.
Another suggestion is Deepstaria Enigmatica, another rarely-studied jellyfish, which like most of its kind is colourless, but has been reported to have a brown stomach, with one description saying the passages to the stomach are 'somewhat irregular-edged, forming a reticulate network'.

Tentacle, feeler, or organ? The creature has many bizarre appendages which have not yet been explained

This might explain the hexagonal markings on the top of the creature.
Those markings lead one commentator on the website Snopes - which tries to debunk or confirm rumours - to suggest this is simply nothing more than a fishing net.
But again, the appendages get in the way.
Another mystery - a man-made one, this time - is exactly where this video was filmed. It was added to YouTube on April 27 this year, and appears to have been filmed two days earlier, but the poster did not leave any other details about the sighting.