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Not a new squid, but a very rarely filmed one. The video was taken late last year and is only now coming to light. Apparently it (the video, not the squid) has been floating around the internet as an email attachment for quite some time.
Two thousand five hundred monometers down, which is pretty deep (though not as deep as it gets), a Shell Oil submersible robot filmed this Magnapinna squid (a.k.a., the "Elbowed Squid."
In 1998 Vecchoine and University of Hawaii biologist Richard Young became the first to document a Magnapinna, based on juveniles of the Magnapinna pacifica species. M. pacifica was so unusual that the scientists had to create a new classification category to accommodate it: the family Magnapinnidae, which currently boasts four species.In 2001 the pair released the first scientific report based on adult Magnapinna specimens, as seen via video. The study demonstrated that Magnapinna are common worldwide in the permanently dark zone of the ocean below about 4,000 feet (1,219 meters).
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Two thousand five hundred kilometers down, which is pretty deep
Yup, that's deep all right!! :-)
Posted by: Scott Belyea | November 28, 2008 9:01 AM
Considering it didn't seem to want to stay in the picture, I'm assuming it's scientific name is magnapinna paparazzi avoidicus.
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | November 28, 2008 9:30 AM
Scott, the deepest part of the ocean on this planet,is the Mariana's trench at about 11 kilometers down. If I'm not mistaken a monometer would be equivalent to 1 meter, therefore we are talking about 2.5 kilometers, which is deep enough. Still, the creature does look like it might be extra terrestial...BTW I don't think your average manometer (bad pun intended) would be able to withstand the pressure at a depth of 2.5 million monometers.
Posted by: Fernando Magyar | November 28, 2008 8:11 PM
What a tease! Do you think I can invest in Shell Oil robot camera technology while continuing to boycott Shell Oil?
Posted by: Ana | November 29, 2008 3:31 AM
Ana, dollars to donuts this submersible is probably a subcontractor. You can probably get a job with that subcontractor, split your time between doing research and subverting, I mean working for, Shell Oil.
Posted by: Greg Laden | November 29, 2008 9:51 AM
It can't be in monometer, it doesn't have any feet at all.
Posted by: Charlie (Colorado) | November 29, 2008 4:18 PM
Wouldn't want to meet that in a dark alley... I mean...in a dark, water-filled alley.
Posted by: unbalanced reaction | November 30, 2008 10:37 PM
Poor squid . . . under all that poetry!
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Posted by: Nigel | December 1, 2008 3:17 AM