Movie for the first time one of the most elusive and mysterious inhabitants of the abysses: it is the squid colossal Msonychoteuthis Hamiltonitheheaviest invertebrate in the worldwhich can reach the 7 meters long he is 500 kilos of weight. His existence era Note for a centurybut So far no alive specimen has ever been seen swimming in its natural habitat. The turning point came last March 9, when a cub just 30 centimeters was resumed 600 meters deep in the ocean Southern Atlantic from the Subacqueo Subastian robot of the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
The unexpected meeting took place while the researchers aboard the ship ‘Falkor (Too)‘they were leading one 35 -day expedition near the Austral Sandwich Islands to survey New forms of marine life. The video obtained thanks to the underwater robot represents the first testimony of the existence in life of this animal (bigger than the famous giant squid), which until now had been documented only through dead specimens or indirect observations.
“It is exciting to see the first in situ movie of a young specimen of colossal squid: for one hundred years we met them mainly as prey that remained in the stomachs of whales and marine birds and as predators of cured cod,” explains the biologist Marina Kat Bolstad of the University of Technology of Auckland, one of the independent experts consulted by the scientific expedition team to verify the movie.
One of the Distinctive features of the colossal squid is the presence of Uncini at the center of his eight arms. THE puppies they have transparent bodies And Sharp hooks At the end of the two longer tentacles, but growing up they lose their transparent appearance. In the video you can see theiridescence eye bulbs that stand out in the darkness of the ocean.
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