One of the rarest animal sightings in the world, the chiropodes maculatus, has only been seen once before.
It is said that this jellyfish has only been seen once before, but divers in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea, caught video of it. This amazing video was posted on the Facebook page for Scuba Ventures. During a dive today, I saw a new kind of jellyfish. "It has cool markings, is a little bigger than a football, and swims pretty fast," the Post said, adding that the very rare animal had only been seen once before, off the coast of Australia. Scientists have only studied one specimen so far. It was caught on May 2, 1997, off the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, which…