Alien Squid at 8,000' deep

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We have the following link on the Morphologic Blog....

Alien Squid

This video was sent to us by a friend who works as a commercial oil rig diver in the Gulf of Mexico. He tells us that it was filmed at 7828 feet deep in the Mississippi Canyon trench on another project that his company is working on. I’m assuming that it was filmed with an unmanned submersible or remote camera. The creature appears to be a type of squid that has evolved incredibly long tentacles that hang downward, jellyfish-style. 8,000 feet deep is a seriously extreme environment, probably low in oxygen, zero light, and little water movement. It is incredible just how much we don’t know about the alien creatures that live at such depths.

Anyone here have a clue as to what species this might be?

Cheers,
Colin
Coral Morphologic
 
Ah ha,

Thanks for the tip-off on the ID Animal Mother. Looks like a species in the genus Magnapinna. Based on the information provided on the link above, it seems that little is known about the genus and a video such as this is an important document of their behavior.

Cheers,
Colin
Morphologic Blog
 
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