Deep Sea Dumpling
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Windows to the Deep 2018. Download larger version (mp4, 17.0 MB).

Despite also being known as “stubby” or “dumpling” squids, bobtails like this one are not squids, nor are they modified cuttlefish as they were once considered. DNA sequencing places these benthic-dwelling animals in the broad group of 10-armed cephalopods.

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