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A collosel squad – the largest inheritance on the planet – has been filmed alive in its wild house for the first time.
For decades, cracked-like colloid squid (Mesonichotuthis haemilton) It was more myth than reality: scientists only had a vague meaning of its appearance from pieces of its remains found in the stomach of the mollusk whale. In fact, it was through those remains that the species was officially described by the zoologist in 1925.
Finally, in 1981, fishermen in Antarctica accidentally rebuild a living colloly squid in their fishing trap. Since then, animals are sometimes killed as fishing bycatch, or washed ash.
Last month, by a ship Shimit ocean instituteA US-based non-profiting organization, surveying the southern ocean near the South Sandwich Islands and live-streaming footage from its remote-controlled deep sea cameras, when an online viewer said that they could only be filmed.
Acting at the tip, researchers sent high-resolution footage to independent squid experts. Experts confirmed that the online viewer’s hump was correct: Squed had specific hooks with their eight weapons sucking, which is an identity of the collosal squid. It was rotating 600 meters below the surface of the water.
Confirmed the first live observation of the collosal squid
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While the collosal squid is thought to grow in a length of 7 meters and 500 kg weight, the squid caught on the camera was only 30 centimeters in length: a child.
“It’s surprising that every time we go to the deep sea, we find something new and exciting,” Jyotica Virmani Schmidt Ocean Institute.
A huge square Can be filmed already In 2023 by researchers of another US-based organization in their natural habitat, Colloid – But the view could not be confirmed because the footage was very low in quality. New squad recording may suggest that 2023 footage actually occupies a huge square. “It is the same size, the same color, the same depth, both in the southern ocean,” says Matt mulrananon In Collosal, which is still waiting for further confirmation.
However, there is no footage of an adult colloxal squid in the wild so far, and these huge wisdom’s lives are still mysterious, says. Steve OsiaEarlier in the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, who coined the name “Kolowal Squid” in the early 2000s. He once postponed animals as “seriously badly bad”, but is now convinced that they are “like giant gelatinus ticks, simply fluttering around the water column near the sea bed”.
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