• TheHalifaxJones@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    It doesn’t say how big this particular squid is in the video. Anyone have a guess? At a glance it seems so very small but without a reference, it’s impossible to tell.

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    6 days ago

    Yoooo!! Finally!!! I remember seeing the scars on a whale from their hooks as a kid, and being amazed that something like that could exist. Finding out no one had ever seen one alive devastated little 2nd grade me lol

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    6 days ago

    the first confirmed video of this species in its natural habitat – a 30-centimetre juvenile

    For my fellow Americans that is about the length of a $5 sub from subway.

    at a depth of 600 metres

    This is ~6 1/2 football fields.

    Colossal squid can grow up to seven metres

    7 standard washing machines in width

    and weigh as much as 500 kilograms

    55 watermelons

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      6 days ago

      Looks to me like only the tentacles are glowy, and the body and eyes are just reflecting the camera’s light.

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      6 days ago

      Most deep sea animals are glowy! Makes sense I think, there’s not a lot of light down there.

      Fun fact - the first forms of photosynthesis were by red colored algaes and plankton - not green, because different colors of light penetrate the ocean to different levels.