Scientists from Schmidt Ocean were exploring an underwater canyon of he west coast of Australia when they found something flabbergasting in the deep sea: a crazy-long ocean creature called a siphonophore.

It is a trailing ribbon of conjoined tentacled clones sweeping the ocean.

They are sometimes called the "long stringy stingy thingy”

Siphonophores blur the line between organ and organism. They somehow manage to be both at once.

The outer ring was estimated to be around 47 meters long (154 feet).

The whole giant thing is composed of made of millions of interconnected clones, tiny individuals called zooids.

They clone themselves thousands of times into one of several flavors - some with stinging tentacles and even red lures to attract food, others specialized for reproduction or movement.

Each individual acts like an organ in the larger siphonophore body.
While the siphonophore, which is related to jellyfish, looks like it's all one animal, it's actually a collection of parts. 
There are about a dozen different jobs a clone can do in the colony.

Each clone is specialized to a particular task,"

In a colony this massive, there would have to be at least millions of these conjoined organ-individuals working together, to sift for food.

They share their spoils with each other by passing nutrients along a stem they're all connected to - a vertical branch which also serves as a passageway for nerve signals.

Watch the video below.