Squid(s): March 12, 2017

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Discovering the Deep: Exploring Remote Pacific MPAs. Download larger version (mp4, 11.5 MB).

 

A Friday twofer! Check out this video of a squid...with another squid in its tentacles (look closely). Scientists thought it might be an act of predation, or maybe mating, or...? Seen during the Discovering the Deep: Exploring Remote Pacific Marine Protected Areas expedition, while exploring an unnamed seamount in the Tokelau Seamount Chain within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area.

The deep ocean holds many mysteries still left to discover.