The story
Named after the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a satirical deity made of spaghetti, by the oil workers who first saw this animal in 2015.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
flying spaghetti monster
Today it means: A bathypelagic species of siphonophore (Bathyphysa conifera), found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and off the coast of Southwestern Africa and California. Full definition →