Colossal squid caught on video for first time, seen swimming nearly 2,000 feet below ocean’s surface
The massive squid, the heaviest invertebrates in the world, was captured on a video that swims in the deep sea for the first time since it was identified a century ago.
the Footage was filmed on March 9 The Schmidt Ocean Institute said in a press statement that an international team of scientists and crew on an exploratory trip near the southern Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
The squid, scientifically named Meonychothheis Hamiltoni, was in almost one foot, according to the statement. He was at the depth of 1968 foot when scientists and crew on board the institute’s research ship, Falkour, picked up its clips with a remotely operating vehicle called Subastian.
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“It is exciting to see the first site Cat Polstad of Oakland University of Technology said that snapshots of tremendous and humble events believed that they have no idea about the existence of humans.
Polstad was one of the scientific experts who helped check the video.
She said: “100 years ago, we faced them mainly, while the prey remains in the stomach of the whale and sea birds and as predators in the tooth that was harvested.”
The squid was officially identified and named in 1925, but so far, no one has been able to capture it on the camera.
The institute said that the squid can grow up to 23 feet and weigh up to 1100 pounds. Little is known about the life cycle, but it loses its transparent body when it becomes an adult.
The massive squid should not be confused with the giant squid, according to London Natural History Museum. Both are the huge siphawoods, but belong to different families of the squid. The giant squid contains much longer claws with a more narrow body, while the massive squid has a much larger body with shorter claws.
Polstad and Aaron Evans, an independent expert in the family of the glass squid that also helped check the video, said that the massive squid has distinctive features, including hooks in the middle of their eight arms.
Until now, Rove Substan has acquired the first confirmed shots of at least four types of squid in the wild, including Bromsotothes last year and linking the century in 2020.
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