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For over a century, the Antarctic gonate squid (Gonatus antarcticus) had remained one of the most elusive and mysterious creatures of the deep. First discovered in 1898, the squid had only ever been ...
A mysterious squid found only in the frigid, deep waters near Antarctica has been spotted alive in the wild for the first time. In December, scientists filmed a three-foot-long Antarctic gonate ...
No Antarctic gonate squid had ever been seen alive before, as far as the team was aware. They followed it for a couple of minutes and made sure to record it on video, capturing the creature’s ...
An elusive deep-sea squid species was caught on camera for the first time ever in a major breakthrough.. National Geographic, on June 10, revealed the "history-making sighting" of a massive, three ...
Bolstad noted that an organization called Colossal captured footage of a glass squid of a similar size in the Antarctic in the organization’s 2023-2024 observing campaign, but the lack of high ...
Two research expeditions have captured the first footage of two squid species — a colossal squid and a glacial glass squid — swimming in the deep sea.
The squid is distinct, with giant fins jutting off of its body like Dumbo the elephant's ears. These fins are as wide as the squid's upper body (or mantle) is long, Osterhage said, and Bigfins ...
The group of scientists, which included collaborators from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, found that in vibrantly colored squid mantle tissues, light-manipulating ...
He peels back the squid’s hard inner shell, or “pen,” to reveal a pair of nerve fibers, called axons, extending from the severed end of the squid into its well-muscled mantle.
In live squid, the mantle expands to take water into the body, and then strongly contracts to shoot water outwards as a jet. This ability depends on the anisotropic muscles within squid connective ...
In 2020, SuBastian also filmed a ram’s horn squid (Spirula spirula) for the first time in the wild. That cephalopod was documented floating vertically roughly 2,790 feet deep off the northern ...