I was so excited when I saw that headline on CNN:
Here I thought CNN might be reporting on transcendental philosophical event.
But it turns out that oceanographers – who clearly have too much time on their hands – have decided to call a species of squid, * Bathyphysa siphonophores*, a "Flying Spaghetti Monster because of its obvious similarity to that construct.
Here it is:
The REAL news is apparently the discovery of a huge underwater mountain:
I thought this was the Flying Spaghetti Monster:
My Hero!!
Are you certain that it’s not?
It has to be twenty years since I last thought about flying spaghetti monsters.
There was a giant noodle monster rampage in Portland several years ago, but it wasn’t the flying kind.
That is most definitely not a squid - it is a cnidarian, closer to jellyfish and corals.
My apologies to the cnidarian community. I was just quoting from the article.
Apostasy! And to make matters worse, he used the plural form to denote the one and only one! Sacrilege!
You were summarizing part of the article. But the article itself wasn’t incorrect:
The researchers documented a ghostly white Casper octopus, marking the first time this deep-dwelling cephalopod has been seen in the southern Pacific. They also spotted two rare Bathyphysa siphonophores, sometimes known as flying spaghetti monsters for their stringlike appearance.
Bathyphysa is a genus in the order of siphonophores. (The photo caption says it is the species Bathyphysa conifera.)