The divers were working with a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) spotted the creature and was bewildered with fear for their life.

If BP footage can prove anything, it is that the flying spaghetti monster has not yet “boiled for your sins”.

Dr Daniel Jones of the National Oceanographic Centre in UK, who is the SERPENT project coordinator, with the help of Dr Philip Pugh from Anglia Ruskin University, identified the weird creature as a specimen of Bathyphysa conifera.

The bizarre-looking creature is actually a Bathyphysa conifer, which is a deep-sea critter recently sighted swimming off the coast of Angola.

Going about their daily chores, workers with the BP oil company saw this odd looking creature and captured some footage of the wobbly deep-sea spaghetti monster using a ROV submerged at 4,000 feet. The website that informed about the creature’s origin was founded by Casey Dunn, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University in Rhode Island. It means that this one creature is in fact more multicellular organisms, dubbed zooids.

The rebel spaghetties or zooids that are not neatly wrapped in the larger body are specifically called gastrozooids. In the case of B. conifer, some of the constituent zooids specialize in catching food and eating it, while others specialize in reproducing, for example. Siphonophores are mostly colonial animals, and are really fascinating in nature.

Bathyphysa conifera is a species of pelagic siphonophore (order Siphonophorae) belonging to the family Rhizophysidae. (That’s the bulbous-looking thing sticking out from the top part of the spaghetti monster.) Farther down the stem is a siphosome, where a bunch of zooids are hard at work catching and eating food, reproducing, and doing all the other things the animal needs to do to survive.

“The video was sent to me by oil industry ROV pilots through the SERPENT network”, Dr Jones explained. Siphonophores clone themselves as part of the growing process.