Two weird squid species caught on camera
Ram’s horn squid at 860m.
SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE
Bigfin squid filmed at around 3km deep.
CSIRO
SPIRULA SPIRULA,
the ram’s horn squid, was known from discarded shells washed up on beaches but had never been recorded in its natural deep-sea habitat - until now.
An ROV camera operating at a depth of 861m picked up a 7cm specimen of the cephalopod species - surprising scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute, who had been expecting to study jellyfish.