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There's a challenge for you: What is that?

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I've never seen that before.

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Wow.

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It's a combo between a ctenophore, a skate, and a sea cucumber.

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Yeah, that's remarkable. That's stumping all of us here in the back row so far.

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Oh, it's doubled up. It's a squid.

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Yeah. Upside down.

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Really wonderful imagery. Yes, and it is a squid.

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There's a couple of different families that have these short-bodied squids with very long fins.

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Cycloteuthidae is my current guess right now.

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Probably the most bizarre squid I've ever seen.

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It's not unusual to see squids with their arms folded back like that. That's a typical defensive posture,

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but it's so extreme on this, that it doesn't even look like a squid anymore.

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It's a remarkable observation.

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I wish I could tell you for sure what it was.