Whereas exploring the Tonga Trench earlier this month within the South Pacific Ocean, scientists gathered extraordinarily rare footage of a weird and elusive deep-sea animal, the bigfin squid (Magnapinna). The Deep Sea Research Centre shared the footage from 10,800 ft (3,300 m) on X final week.
Within the eerie video, you see the squid, which has extremely lengthy, skinny arms “strolling” alongside the underside of the ocean. Bigfins get their title from the truth that their fins “stretch to about 90% of the size of the mantle, or the primary physique of the squid,” according to the Ocean Conservancy. The group additionally says the biggest bigfin squid on file was greater than 20 ft lengthy.
Squids have eight arms and two tentacles, which, within the bigfin’s case, look about the identical. The Ocean Conservancy suggests these arms and tentacles assist the squid catch prey.
See the uncommon bigfin squid footage right here:
Uncommon 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢 sighting 🦑
Whereas exploring Tonga Trench this month at 3,300m we captured footage of the elusive 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢 squid. Our reward to you for #Squidtember!@Hadalbloke @uwanews @InkfishExplore pic.twitter.com/Tx9l9oJfFk
— Deep Sea Analysis Centre (@deepseauwa) September 19, 2024
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